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From: Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:40:53
Message-Id: 1161589088l.10465l.0l@spike
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386 by Mike Frysinger
1 On 2006.10.22 22:42, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Sunday 22 October 2006 10:03, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 > > Dropping support for "i386" means not being able to use the "i386-*"
4 > > CHOST.
5 >
6 > you've hinted at the point of my e-mail ... moving forward, do we
7 > change our
8 > min supported version to i486 ? Debian did this quite some time ago
9 > ...
10 > -mike
11 >
12
13 Why not ?
14
15 Gentoo - First into the future and last out of the past.
16
17 I suspect the liveCD x86 kernel does not include FPU Emulation, in
18 which case we already require 386/387 as the minimum hardware level.
19
20 Regards,
21
22 Roy Bamford
23 (NeddySeagoon)
24
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386 Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>