> > There is a process by which people can support other architectures. If enough > > people that care enough to do the actual work involved with maintaining > > a secondary architecture work to make it happen, there could be an i586 > > and/or i486 secondary architecture. > Well, what is involved in building of Fedora for the i386 arch > other than an automated script that sets the gcc options to > compile for the i386 architecture? > Is that really all that much work? 386 is fairly hairy because of the FPU differenced and a 386 kernel is materially slower than a 486 one as it has to deal with some unsupported MMU features and some missing but important for SMP instructions. A 486 or 586 kernel is basically just compile options. You actually want to build for 486 instruction set but tuned for 686 I suspect - gcc supports this sort of stuff nicely. Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
