Re: Cyrix Detection -- NO SMP, please ?????

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:10:16 +0200 (MET DST)

> > 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
> > will work on i486+. MTRR support must be on w/ PPRO+ SMP because some MBs
> > dont set MTRRs correctly on both CPUs..
>
> i386 have almost become a history. May be I'm wrong, but I don't see any
> sense to run 2.1.xxx-2.2.x kernels on i386. The entry level is i486.

I, for one, would be very disappointed if i386 support disappeared; it'd
remove a lot of debugging possibilities for me, such as ESDI, etc. And why
would we dump i386? It's not particularly hard to maintain...

There are a lot of 386's out there, and throwing that userbase out is
plain stupid, considering their other option is DOS...

/David

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