On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Petr Soucek wrote: >Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:08:11 +0200 >From: Petr Soucek <petr@ryston.cz> >To: psyche-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: i386 kernel not included? > >On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 10:48, Mike A. Harris wrote:: > >> i386 and i486 class hardware hasn't been supported in >> Red Hat Linux since Red Hat Linux 7.0 or 6.2 (I don't recall >> specifically off the top of my head). An i386 kernel has been >> supplied, but for reasons other than supporting i386. > >It seems there is some confusion in Hardware compatibility list, all >distributions upto 8.0 were marked as "Compatible" for 80386, 80486 >and 5x86 processors. For RHL 8.0 I asked maintainer to mark these >processors as "Not supported" and he changed it, but all previous >releases are still marked as compatible, e.g.: >http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=details&hid=3399 >http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=details&hid=2869 >etc.... It is very unfortunate that our hardware compatibility list is never up to date. If I understand correctly, making it constantly up to date is a very cumbersome and complicated task. ;o/ Red Hat Linux 7.1 and up should not have i386 or i486 listed as supported, even though the distro will likely install and work ok if the machine has enough RAM and has otherwise compatible hardware. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
