Why are there only i686 and i586 Version of glibc and kernel? -- not "lite" (386/486 @ 400MHz+, 256MB RAM)

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:06:13PM -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Ever seen a i386/486 core running at 400MHz?
> With 256MB of RAM?
> And a 20GB disk?

386 no not really now, 6117 seems kind of defunct. The AMD Geode GX line
is 486alike but with roughly pentium instruction set. They run (well the
older version anyway) Linux rather nicely.

> I'm talking about a i686 optimized distro that runs on i386 ISA.
> Heck, those i386/486 cores are pretty optimized themselves.

Nobody would argue much about 486, but 386 really hurts and I've seen
no modern embedded core that isnt 486 ISA