On 09/28/2009 03:21 PM, William M. Quarles wrote: > For years the Fedora developers have said that changing the base > architecture for all of the packages from i386 to i586 would actually > make the code less efficient for i686 processors due to the large bumber > of bug workarounds in i586 code for many i586 processors. So does > anybody know why this change was done? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/<releasenumber>/FeatureList You can usually look up the feature list for more details https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ArchitectureSupport Much of the older hardware has become obsolete and unsupported essentially in Fedora systems. Also because a lot of software specific issues have been fixed over time. Net result is that we get a bit of a performance increase while not losing much. This is again changing to i686 for Fedora 12 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
