On Wed, 2003-08-06 09:52:57 -0600, Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:05:13AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > Now that the kernel-image packages supports hw emulation of i486 > > instructions on i386 hardware, I'd like to change the code generation > > to default to i486 (not sure if it should be tuned for any other > > target, i.e. -mtune=i686). > > TTBOMK, NetBSD doesn't (yet) have kernel emulation of i486 instructions > on i386 targets. On the flip side, we also have no installed userbase, so > it is, perhaps, less crucial to support extremely old processors for this > (especially if Linux continues to support them).
Linux supports them, but Debianish ./configury makes it hard because the
emulator isn't available eg. for 2.6.x (and at all, his author doesn't
recommend to rely on it...).
MfG, JBG
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