Kernel ARCH i586 i686 - need clarification

[Jeff Ratliff]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:40:06PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:42:02AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> > > Both of these are i686. Only original Pentium (and Pentium MMX) are i586.
> > > Pentium Pro and onward are i686.
> > Your "only" is inappropriate. K6 & K6/2 are also i586. See also
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233815
> 
> "Of Intel processors, only original Pentium...."
> 
> or 
> 
> "Only original Pentium (and Pentium MMX, and various clones)...."
> 
> better?
> 
Just to be obsessive, the AMD K6-3 is also an i586. (Or at least that's
what my system says.) My K6-3 system has always run i586 kernels.