> On 19 Oct 2002, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > >>I cannot say I am happy about that. >> >>The Cyrix 686 (who reached 200 Megahertz in P-rating) is certainly more >>powerful than a P75. But it will NOT work with a kernel compiled for >>Pentium. > > You must be as high as me, in order to ride Psyche > ^ Pentium > | > | > | ^Cyrix 6x86 > | | > | | > | | > ------------------------------ > > >>The AMD K6 will work with a Pentium kernel but there are fair chances >>for it being slower with a Pentium kernel than with a 386 one (it will >>be slower on the C parts). > > Compile your own (unsupported) kernel then. We haven't supported > Anything lower than Pentium for over a year and a half. Anything > lower than Pentium that worked, worked by coincidence, and not > because it was officially supported. > > Time to upgrade your hardware, stay at an older release of the > distro, recompile your own kernel, or possibly even switch to a > distro that offers support out of the box for ancient hardware. > > And yes, I have several boxes which are less than the lowest > system requirements. It's trivial to make the distro run on > unsupported hardware, it just takes a bit of ingenuity. And.... > it is unsupported. But I don't mind. ;o) > > -- > Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Well - having thought about it a bit more ... Removing one 12Mb RPM is quite rediculous when almost EVERY other intel RPM is built for an i386. Even glibc has an i386 version. If you say that you no longer support i386 - then build all the RPM's to i586 and be done with it. If every RPM was at least i586 then all intel machines would run a ilttle bit faster. The argument has been stated before that the majority of performance gain is in using the kernel and glibc that matches your processor - and that all the rest is more effort than worth the gain. However, if they all were already i586 then the effort would be zero to anyone installing to have all to be at least i586 Secondly, there is no such thing as a height measurement that puts the lowest pentium above the highest Cyrix 6x86. I can think of a lot of reasons why the i386 kernel was not there - but maybe one would be that general RedHat support for older hardware is not as good as MS (RedHat seems to sometimes drop support for old hardware that was supported in the previous release) Yet - RedHat's only true market is support (as stated on the web page about trademarks) - interesting :-) -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
