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[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

+ R James + upsnag2 at gmail.com +
+ Sat Sep 25 14:16:58 CEST 2010 +

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On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Patrice BRUNELLE
+<patrice.brunelle at free.fr> wrote:
+> Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010 à 15:51 -0500, R James a écrit :
+>>
+>> Technically, the i686 started with the Pentium Pro.  (Remember that?  :o)
+>>
+>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P6_(microarchitecture)
+>
+> Yes I remember that. And ?
+>
+Its just a precision to the subject title.  i686 began with the
+Pentium Pro, not Pentium II.
+
+I'm not sure what performance benefits can be gained from compiling
+for i686 vs i586.  Probably not much except for multimedia
+applications which most of those can auto-detect the CPU's
+capabilities anyways.
+
+There are still people running AMD K6's (ie: me) which is also i586.
+If we compile for i686 and newer, they won't even be able to boot the
+installer.
+
+Therefore, I agree with the decision to keep i586 support.
+
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