Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
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.
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7 Companies such as DM&P still produce 586-class SoCs for embedded and
8 industrial. These[1][2] are current products.
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10 And Intel Quark[3] is another one.
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12 I prefer option number 1 as suggested in the initial mail.
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15 //Peter
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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