It was only a suggestion, not a decision. Of course, there are only a little number of this early systems. i686 would be really nice, i386 would be nice, too ;-)
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 20:45 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > On 2006.10.09 19:42, Peter Weber wrote: > [snip] > > But to include the sources need simply too much space. I also think > > it it enough to deliver only one stage3 (i686 on the x86-disk, x86-64 > > on > > amd64-disk...). > > > > Greetz > > > [snip] > > Peter, > > Such a disk will not support P1s and AMD k6 CPUs (or older). > Is anyone still using Gentoo on anything older ? > > Dropping support for x86 <i686 is a debate we need to have some time I > suppose, its a question of when. > > There is clearly only a few users, besides myself using systems that > old, since there were very few forums posts about the original 2006.1 > x86 media not workign on P1 and AMD k6 based systems. > > Regards, > > Roy Bamford > (neddyseagoon) > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
