On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:13:41AM +0000, Duncan wrote: > Personally, I'd say 686 is the lowest reasonable to support at this point. > Below that, try an appropriate binary distribution and save the days/weeks > of compiling. Of course, Gentoo is highly customizable, and folks could > try it on 386 if they wanted, but I don't believe it's worth supporting > below 686 at this point. That's personally. I'm sure there are folks > that would argue we should at least support 586, but I simply don't > believe it's worth it.
There are CPUs like VIA C3 which don't have support for cmov and i think gcc asumes that cmov is present if march is i686. Don't know if this changed now. I wouldn't like if i couldn't install Gentoo on my 800Mhz C3 machines anymore because something like -march=i686 is being used. Maybe it's a radical point of view but i think generic i386 or maybe i486 binaries are enough for a boot CD and stages. Almost everyone will rebuild the stuff anyway. And i don't think there's a huge speed loss until the binaries are rebuilt. Christian -- [email protected] mailing list
