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Subject: Why is the base architecture i586?

From: "William M. Quarles" <walrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:51:19 -0400

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For years the Fedora developers have said that changing the basearchitecture for all of the packages from i386 to i586 would actuallymake the code less efficient for i686 processors due to the large bumberof bug workarounds in i586 code for many i586 processors. So doesanybody know why this change was done?


Thanks,
William

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