Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12 (#2)

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun Jun 21 17:19:50 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:24:35PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:

 > F12 x86 will not work on i586 (or i686 without CMOV)
 > ----------------------------------------------------
 > Intel Pentium
 > Intel Pentium Pro
 > 
 > VIA Cyrix III
 > VIA C3 and C3-M ("Samuel 2")
 > VIA C3 and C3-M ("Ezra")
 > VIA C3 and C3-M ("Ezra-T")
 > VIA Eden ESP ("Samuel 2")
 > 
 > .. 
 > Although this is the best I could do, the VIA situation is complex
 > and errors in the above would not shock me.
 
The original "Samuel" won't work either.
Other than this omission, your table looks correct to me.

There's also the AMD K5, K6, K6-2, K6-3 that won't work.
And all the older Cyrix 6x86/MX/MII/MediaGX CPUs.
(Though those things sucked even in 1990's, and I doubt they've
 improved with age)

	Dave




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