F7 Kernel 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 - amazing statements

[David Boles]

on 8/3/2007 2:39 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
> 
>> He is referring to the kernels in Fedora 8. There are only i686 kernels.
> 
> I believe that kernel does work on i586 and it is called i686 to prevent 
> a update path conflict with RPM. There was some discussions in 
> fedora-devel list about this. Dave Jones (CC'ed) should be able to confirm.


I believe that you are correct and that I did not say that correctly. It
has been discussed and evidently done that a kernel named i686 would
support i586, i686, SMP. All. There are only kernels with i686 in the
package name. The kernel-headers have remained named i386.


-- 

  David

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