https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107670
Timothy Arceri <t_arc...@yahoo.com.au> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |NOTOURBUG
--- Comment #21 from Timothy Arceri <t_arc...@yahoo.com.au> ---
(In reply to iive from comment #13)
> Slackware32, i586 and glibc.
> Slackware tries to support as many machines as possible, since i586 is still
> supported by the kernel, Slackware compiles everything to be able to run on
> i586.
>
> The problem is that for some reason Glibc compiled for i586 does NOT support
> multi-arch. It does not use CPUID (that is available on all i586 and some
> i486) to pick specific version for the running CPU. Glibc supports
> multi-arch only for i686 builds.
>
I'm all for allowing old hardware to continue to be used but if you want
performance you should pick a distro that targets "modern" hardware.
Alternatively file a bug against / submit a patch for Glibc.
Given this and comment 20 I'm going to close this as not our bug.
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