Making NPTL the default for FC3, vanilla i386 support

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed May 19 23:23:13 UTC 2004


On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:36:43AM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> And if you look closer it wont be fixed. "Marching orders". Hence my
> conclusion i386 CPUs are already no longer supported on Fedora Core.
> According to your statement the same is true for anything < pentium.
> This would mean we could move to i586 as the minimal architecture just
> as well.

tsc is not available in some i686 or higher systems and doesn't do what
anyone expects on things like big summit boxes (IBM x440 and the like)





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