Could an Intel 486 wake up with FC3

[David Curry]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, James Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>
>>> You can't install FC on anything less than an i586 now without 
>>> rebuilding
>>> pieces of it (no i386 kernel, for example), and it looks like FC4 will
>>> abandon even that.
>>
>>
>> I doubt it. Apparently at least some of the VIA CPUs that are being sold
>> today don't count as a 686 as far as gcc is concerned.
>
>
> You're right, I misread the devel kernel changelog.  It's i586smp 
> that's being dropped from core.
>
>>
>> Incidentally, a 486SX doesn't include an FPU, and Fedora kernels (not
>> surprisingly) don't include emulation code. One other thing for the
>> Original Poster to remember.
>>
>> James.
>>
>>
>
Thanks to all who contributed to this thread.  The exchanges were quite 
informative.