Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

[King InuYasha]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:42 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) said:
> > > Removing support for still-functional hardware is a trademark of
> > > Microsoft, not Linux.
> > >
> > > I'd also argue that doing another full rebuild of the OS for a 1%
> > > performance gain on a single architecture is not a particularly
> > > production use of resources.
> >
> > The 1% comes from i586 -> i686; SSE2 would be additional on top of
> > that. But given the vehement opposition, I can see dropping the SSE2
> > requirement. I'm still fairly convinced that going to i686 is the right
> > move - we really don't support i586 as a practical matter, and even
> > the Geode should still work with that. Furthermore, it's likely we'll
> > have a mass rebuild for LZMA support and/or debuginfo changes, so it's
> > no additional cost.
>
> Great, i686 without SSE(2) seems OK to me. I even wonder why we did not
> go to that requirement in F11 already without the intermediate ~i586
> requirement.
>
> --
> Tomas Mraz
> No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
>                                              Turkish proverb
>
>
Because Pentium II and lower support i586 arch.
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