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On Saturday 14 July 2001 12:25, you wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:10:09AM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> > I added it. I also added an i386 option. Does anyone know why the |
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> > options started from 486 initially? Is there a problem in using 386 (with |
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> > a math coprocessor)? |
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> There are some issues with the i386-i387 connections (Bad Intel decision, |
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> causing us to have one less IRQ available :() and there are also an |
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> instruction or two on the i486 that's not on the i386, especially cache |
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> related. |
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But as far as I understand all things properly compiled for the i386 should |
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work, right? |
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I don't have a 386. Someone who does might want to test Gentoo on it. Though |
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cross-compiling to 386 from a faster machine might be a good idea :-) |
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Dan Armak |
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