Re: FC2 devel/i386 vs VIA EPIA boards

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

Hello Dave,

> Folks have done installs/upgrades on various 586 class boxes and its
> worked fine.

Ok, maybe i586 cpus work, but i386 cpus (like this Cyrix P166) do not.
As the bug report states rpm needs non i386 instructions. I actually
think these might be MMX instructions, so Pentium I's (before P Pro)
might not work either.

I assume that is the reason not to ship an i386 kernel anymore.

Bye,
Leonard.