Could an Intel 486 wake up with FC3

[Matthew Saltzman]

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.
>
>

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