i486 base architecture
Elliot Lee
sopwith at redhat.com
Sun Nov 28 21:57:53 UTC 2004
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, William M. Quarles wrote:
> Earlier this year on this list several of us were discussing the
> possibility of adjustments being made to the architecture optimizations
> of the Fedora Core packages. One of the suggestions thrown around that
> had zero opposition was changing the base architecture from i386 to
> i486. Why has this not been done? This is especially poignant since
> Fedora Core 1 finally broke i386 compatibility with its kernel.
Lots of pain for little gain (especially if we're just moving to i486 as
the base arch).
-- Elliot
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