Re: Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 1 (5.90)

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:25:16PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > Working on low budget machines ($100 laptop project) may also 
>  > necessitate older or non mainstream (amd/intel) processors.
> 
> The OLPC project is actually an interesting corner-case, as it's 686 capable
> (it even has cmov), however it allegedly runs code tuned for 586 faster.

I tried various options with the older versions of those processors and 486
not unsuprisingly came out best given its essentially (or was - I don't know
how much the core has changed) a 486 with goodies bolted on.

486 without padding was best from memory