586 kernels.

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Jun 20 22:43:51 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 17:43 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> Since the other kernels have their specific names in them, such as ppc,
> x86-64, ppc64, etc., why can't you use a name for ix86 systems instead
> of x86?  Heck, why not just x86?  Will rpm upgrade/install with that
> over 586, 686, etc? 

We'd have to add the new arch to rpm, yum, etc so that it would be known
and where it falls in the ordering, etc

Jeremy




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