F12 to require "i686", but which CPUs do not qualify?

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Fri Aug 14 21:01:07 UTC 2009


On 09-08-14 09:20:04, Naheem Zaffar wrote:
> Not Bill, but from my understanding, SSE2 was originally going to be
> required and that question must have been presented and answered at
> that point. Once the main page got updated after discussion, the 
> original questions that no longer apply have not been removed.

Apparantly I'm not making myself clear.  That page specifically 
excludes all AMD processors before the Geode LX, thus it excludes the 
Athlon:

> * pre-AMD Geode processors

It may be that discussions have happened elsewhere, but the current
F12 Feature page does exclude the Athlon and similar processors.


> 2009/8/14 Tony Nelson
> >
> >
> > That doesn't actually quite say about SSE2, but at
> > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/F12X86Support>:
> >
> > > _Bill Nottingham_ Once a set has been decided on, this should be
> > > pretty trivial. With respect to the proposal, 'grep sse2 /proc/
> > > cpuinfo' should work.
> >
> > Bill?

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