i486 base architecture
William M. Quarles
quarlewm at jmu.edu
Sun Nov 28 22:47:35 UTC 2004
Elliot Lee wrote:
> 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).
What kind of pain are we talking about here?
Peace,
William
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