On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Patrice BRUNELLE <[email protected]> wrote: > Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010 à 15:51 -0500, R James a écrit : >> >> Technically, the i686 started with the Pentium Pro. (Remember that? :o) >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P6_(microarchitecture) > > Yes I remember that. And ? > Its just a precision to the subject title. i686 began with the Pentium Pro, not Pentium II.
I'm not sure what performance benefits can be gained from compiling for i686 vs i586. Probably not much except for multimedia applications which most of those can auto-detect the CPU's capabilities anyways. There are still people running AMD K6's (ie: me) which is also i586. If we compile for i686 and newer, they won't even be able to boot the installer. Therefore, I agree with the decision to keep i586 support. _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
