Why are there only i686 and i586 Version of glibc and kernel? -- 486 ISA, WinChip

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:44:22PM -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:  
> > 240. And it runs 586 code. Trust me I've got one 8)
> 
> 240MHz sounds more like a WinChip2 with the pipelined FPU?
> But if you say it's an original WinChip, I'll believe you.

240 is the WC2 you are correct, 225 is th WC1.

Fun chip - its the one case where a kernel built for the specific processor
can be up to 30% faster than the default Fedora kernel. As you'll appreciate
however there isn't enough demand to justify Fedora Core coming with Winchip
series kernels.

Alan