On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:24:15PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
This issue was discussed in the thread "Making NPTL the default for FC3, vanilla i386 support". Both i386s and i486s are already no longer supported since FC 1. Try running rpm on either of these CPUs and see it fail. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103078 .
It depends which 486 variant, and its only rpm thata affected.
More relevantly, dropping 486 compatibility buys you nothing. The pentium added no useful "essential" instruction that makes a big difference while the 486 added several features