Why are there only i686 and i586 Version of glibc and kernel?

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hi Alan,

> It depends which 486 variant, and its only rpm thata affected.

Plus db4 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91933).
But indeed nothing else that I am aware of. Maybe these packages should
be tagged i686 for this reason. Calling them i386 gives the wrong
impression of compatibility. This way i386 users can easily tell these
are packages that need to be patched.

> More relevantly, dropping 486 compatibility buys you nothing. The pentium
> added no useful "essential" instruction that makes a big difference while the
> 486 added several features

Ok. That seems to be a good reason not to bump to i586. Still leaves the
question if we need to bump to i486.

Leonard.

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