On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 08:12 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:06:21PM -0500, William M. Quarles wrote: > > >The only thing 486 might give is the ability to consign the old > > >linuxthread stuff to the dustbin of back compatibility. > > > > I'm guessing that's supposed to be a joke? > > No its quite serious. 486 adds a lot of the SMP instructions like XADD that > good threading in user space wants. So actually that could be a good reason why we should switch over to i486 as base arch? -- Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx>
