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On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 04:11 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Monday 23 October 2006 03:38, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> > I suspect the liveCD x86 kernel does not include FPU Emulation, in |
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> > which case we already require 386/387 as the minimum hardware level. |
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> ok ? i dont see how that is different from what is expected; we release i386 |
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> stages and our livecds support i386 ... |
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$ grep CONFIG_M.86 installcd-2.6.17.config |
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# CONFIG_M386 is not set |
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CONFIG_M486=y |
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# CONFIG_M586 is not set |
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# CONFIG_M586TSC is not set |
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# CONFIG_M586MMX is not set |
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# CONFIG_M686 is not set |
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$ pwd |
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/var/cvsroot/gentoo/src/releng/kconfig/2006.1/x86 |
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The installcd has actually been i486 since 2004.3 was released. |
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Actually, that was probably accidental and likely my fault, but it's |
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been i486 since then (except for a short time as i586, which caused |
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problems for some i586-class machines... go figure). |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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