On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 03:05:21PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 06:27:05PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > After the 486, Intel always provided a method to determine the CPU type and
> > features available. As far as I can tell, there's no easy programmatic wa
Hi,
On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 06:27:05PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> After the 486, Intel always provided a method to determine the CPU type and
> features available. As far as I can tell, there's no easy programmatic way
> to tell the difference between a (old, no CPUID) 486 and an (old, no
[ nice summary of the various 386 and 486 clones snipped ]
> As someone else mentioned, i386s are vanishing pretty quickly due to
> component failure. Cheap or discarded 486s are available by the busload
> to replace them, anyway...
Sure. Since some people are talking about pentium and 686 comp
Dale Martin said:
>don't support. We have to think about:
>- All of the x86 compatible Intel processors
All except the actual i386 (all suffixes) support the 486 instruction set.
>- All of the x86 compatible AMD processors
All except the 386* chips support the 486 instruction set.
>- All of the
At Fri, 02 May 2003 12:58:41 +0900,
GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:17:32 +0200,
> Matthias Klose wrote:
> > What are the steps to be taken to move to i486-linux? Has this to be
> > decided on debian-policy?
> >
> > Would it be ok to drop i386-linux until somebody starts it again?
>
At Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:17:32 +0200,
Matthias Klose wrote:
> What are the steps to be taken to move to i486-linux? Has this to be
> decided on debian-policy?
>
> Would it be ok to drop i386-linux until somebody starts it again?
How about using hwcap? So, libstdc++ (i486-i6/786) put on /usr/lib,
l
(Sorry to follow-up to my own post)
> - All of the x86 compatible Intel processors
> - All of the x86 compatible AMD processors
> - All of the x86 compatible Cyrix processors
> - All of the x86 compatible VIA processors
> - All of the x86 compatible TransMeta processors
> - The National Semicondu
> > I am in favor of dropping the 386 altogether,
I missed the beginning of this discussion (perhaps it was on -devel only?),
so sorry if this has been brought up already. I've got a machine with a
VIA C3 processor, which I believe does not support the "cmov" opcode unlike
most modern x86 impleme
Neil Roeth writes:
> Nice summary.
> > * Drop i386 support mostly. 'i386' architecture becomes 'i486'.
> > Start a 'Debian-real-i386' subproject, with a 'real-i386' architecture,
> > but don't require that any packages build on it in order to go into
> > testing or to release Debian; it would be
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