Re: Could an Intel 486 wake up with FC3

[David Curry]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > You can't install FC on anything less than an i586 now without 
> > > rebuilding
> > > pieces of it (no i386 kernel, for example), and it looks like FC4 will
> > > abandon even that.
> >
> > I doubt it. Apparently at least some of the VIA CPUs that are being sold
> > today don't count as a 686 as far as gcc is concerned.
>
> You're right, I misread the devel kernel changelog.  It's i586smp 
> that's being dropped from core.
> > Incidentally, a 486SX doesn't include an FPU, and Fedora kernels (not
> > surprisingly) don't include emulation code. One other thing for the
> > Original Poster to remember.
> >
> > James.

Thanks to all who contributed to this thread.  The exchanges were quite 
informative.