> I've noticed that F12 will require a CPU with "i686" architecture, and > that my Athlon 1.2GHz won't qualify. I accept that F11 is the last > Fedora release that I'll be able to use. My concern is that many > present Fedora users will be unpleasantly surprised that a new > installation doesn't work, or at least that they've wasted the > download. > > The Release Notes, starting with the F12 Alpha Release Notes, should > tell users about this, and so should the release announcements. The > difficulty is in telling them what exactly is an "i686" CPU, as that is > defined by GCC and is said to be a moving target (over the years). I'm > hoping that someone qualified can make the appropriate changes to the > Releases Notes wiki (I don't know what all the requirements are, though > I do know that the Athlon does not support SSE/SSE2). > > Is there a simple way for ordinary users to know if their CPU is > expected to work on F12 (as an "i686" according to GCC)? Is there a > tool to run that doesn't require downloading F12? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support Its outlined in the link above. An athlon should be fine. Basically if its i586 + cmov it should work. You can tell if you have cmov by looking at /proc/cpuinfo. Originally it wasn't planned to support them but there was enough discussion to change peoples minds :-) Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
