From: | Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> | ||
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To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo i486 support | ||
Date: | Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:23:02 | ||
Message-Id: | 20180822142216.18909.qmail@stuge.se | ||
In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo i486 support by Rich Freeman |
1 | Rich Freeman wrote: |
2 | > Is there a large population that actually runs x86 on modern |
3 | > hardware, or is ancient hardware a significant use case? |
4 | |
5 | There are current products with pre-686 instruction sets. |
6 | |
7 | Companies such as DM&P still produce 586-class SoCs for embedded and |
8 | industrial. These[1][2] are current products. |
9 | |
10 | And Intel Quark[3] is another one. |
11 | |
12 | I prefer option number 1 as suggested in the initial mail. |
13 | |
14 | |
15 | //Peter |
16 | |
17 | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex86 |
18 | [2] http://www.vortex86.com/?p=264 |
19 | [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark |