Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection

Adrian Bunk
2003-09-07T13:18:00Z

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:46:47PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-07 13:28:13 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
> wrote in message <20030907112813.GQ14436@fs.tum.de>:
> > There are two different needs:
> > 1. the installation kernel of a distribution should support all CPUs
> > this distribution supports (perhaps starting with the 386)
>
> So far, no major distribution does support an i386. Basically, this has
> leaked in by some broken patch to libstdc++ which was not observed for a
> long time. To support i386, an additional emulator for additional i486
> needs to be compiled-in, too. I had a short try to port Debian's patch
> into 2.6.x, but it oopsed :-> If I get some time, I'll finish that.
> Before we have thie i486-emu-for-i386 in, i386 support in the kernel
> doesn't make *any* sense on it's own...
>...

This is not related to the issues my patch addresses.

If you want to read my mail with a s/386/486/g and the contents should
still be valid.

> MfG, JBG

cu
Adrian

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