Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Sep 2003 15:48:54 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection |
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On Sun, 2003-09-07 15:17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote in message <20030907131732.GU14436@fs.tum.de>: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:46:47PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-09-07 13:28:13 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> > > wrote in message <20030907112813.GQ14436@fs.tum.de>: > > > There are two different needs: > > > 1. the installation kernel of a distribution should support all CPUs > > > this distribution supports (perhaps starting with the 386) > > > > So far, no major distribution does support an i386. Basically, this has > > leaked in by some broken patch to libstdc++ which was not observed for a > > long time. To support i386, an additional emulator for additional i486 > > needs to be compiled-in, too. I had a short try to port Debian's patch > > into 2.6.x, but it oopsed :-> If I get some time, I'll finish that. > > Before we have thie i486-emu-for-i386 in, i386 support in the kernel > > doesn't make *any* sense on it's own... > >... > > This is not related to the issues my patch addresses.
This is why I wrote that I basically like the overall concept of your patch.
MfG, JBG
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