On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 22:39, Aaron Toponce <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 6/11/2010 11:03 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I'm not exactly sure what the policy is for packages in the i386 archives > in > > general, but I believe they are supposed to have -586 or -686 in their > package > > name is they require those instruction sets. Some of the A/V codec > libraries > > had stuff like that for a while, IIRC. I believe currently they > auto-probe > > for the processor features and use what is available at runtime. > > Other than the kernel, which is compiled for 686 instruction sets, and > maybe a few core packages that would benefit from targeting the 686 > architecture, Debian compiles the rest of the packages against 386. > > -- > . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . > . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O > O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O > > There is no 386 kernel available. Kernel starts from 486 only.
