> > The dists should be shipping two sets of kernels. Both with PPRO opt
> > turned on and MTRR support. This leaves out the i386. SO? What the hell
> > are you doing Running RedHat 5.5 w/ a 2.2 kernel on a i386?!? PPro opt
>
> People run Red Hat on 386 boxes and it works. I imagine they'd be quite upset
> if someone said 'tough upgrade your hardware'. After all that attitude from
> other vendors is how half of them came to decide to run Linux in the first
> place
I never said that.. I should be like: Tough, go grab a i386 boot disk from
the contrib dir. It would be nice if we had the option to make the minium
a 386 while still turning most opts for ppro+
> A distribution is about getting people up and running in a supportable
> fashion. A vendor configured box is intended to suit everyone, in exactly
> the same way as a new car generally comes configured for the general user.
> For a vendor to ship SMP kernels, SMP has to be very solid, supportable,
> and sufficiently demanded to justify the support costs. The technical code
> issues of having two kernels are much less than the bean counting ones.
At least it makes it clear where the problem is..
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