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From: Francesco Riosa <vivo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new arch, WAS: support for i386
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:03:04
Message-Id: 4539FF08.2080901@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386 by Roy Bamford
1 Roy Bamford ha scritto:
2 > On 2006.10.21 09:02, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >> we're going to have to cut off support for i386 targets starting with
4 >> glibc-2.6 ... the upstream plans are to require TLS and i386 does not
5 >> have
6 >> the atomic instructions required to support it
7 >>
8 >> some other implications ... the glibc-compat20 people will also be
9 >> stuck with
10 >> glibc-2.5 (as that implies no TLS support in linuxthreads)
11 >> -mike
12 >>
13 >
14 > Mike,
15 >
16 > "cut off" as in nothing for i386 or leave i386 at glibc-2.5?
17 > Not that its matters much, there can't be many 80386 boxes running
18 > Gentoo now.
19 >
20 > What is the lowest IA32 arch that will be supported ?
21 > I'm looking for clarification because very often i386 is used to mean
22 > anything < i686. I have a personal interest too. My server is a k6-2.
23 >
24 > Regards,
25 >
26 > Roy Bamford
27 > (NeddySeagoon)
28 >
29
30 may be the time to add a new arch "386" ?
31
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Re: [gentoo-dev] new arch, WAS: support for i386 Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>