On Sunday 12 May 2002 08:00 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:31 pm, you wrote: > > i586 will work on machines with a Pentium class processor or newer. That > > is, anything newer than a 486. i686 will work on machines with a Celeron, > > Pentium II, or newer. Thus my AMD K6 box can use RPMs for either i586 or > > i686, but my AMD K5 box can only use RPMs for i586. > > Something is not right. My machine has an AMD K6-2 but the arch program Tom > mentioned gave me i586 for the CPU. I think the arch program is probably > mistaken. > > I think the difference between the i586 and the i686 is that the i686 has > the MMX instructions and the i586 does not. I think the arch program should > have detected a i686. > > > Can somebody correct me? > > > Seedkum
I believe the K6 is seen by linux as being i586 architecture. In particular, on the errata page it specifically states that problems have occurred with K6 and P1 systems with some i686 build stuff that got put on the Commercial CD's of the Power Pack and above. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3 Michael
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