On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Don't forget about the srpm needed as well, and the i586 bigmem, or i586 >> SMP, and on and on and on... > >How many Pentium systems _ever_ supported more than 4 Gbytes of RAM? Any?
Zero. The processor feature which allows more than 4Gb of physical RAM to be present and useable in a machine was first added to the Intel Pentium Pro processor, and all Intel CPU's that have been released since. Hence why bigmem only is available on i686 class CPU's and higher. >The src.rpm is already there. For 7.3 RH omitted the i586 kernel >which annoyed lots. the i586-smp kernel was there. The i586 >kernel appeared in the updates. It annoyed me for sure. :o) I got all the bug reports from people with i586/K5/K6/Cyrix CPU's that could no longer get DRI to work. ;o) My primary test system at the time, was a K6-3 300. I experienced the problem myself first, but not until after it was too late. ;o/ Oh well... sh*t happens... ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc.
