Re: [WBEL-devel] WBEL4 RC1 on VIA C3 CPU

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 09:40, Sean Atkinson wrote:

> I also tried vmlinuz from Debian's kerne-image-2.6.11-1-686 since it's
> config file lists a cache shift of 5 which I hoped matched the Ezra.
> However that behaves similarly.
> 
> The only kernels that successfully boot such as TTYLinux 4.5 and WBEL3's
> 2.4.21-15.EL BOOT include "CONFIG_M386=y" in their configs.
> 
> Will the final WBEL4 release support general 386 class processors, or
> require "proper" 686 models instead?

That is a very good question.  RH is really discouraging it.  For WBEL3
it was a one line .spec tweak, this time will require restoring the
whole i586 config file in the kernel source tree.  Centos did it and
they say fixing it isn't that hard.  I'm already having to modify the
kernel package anyway so that argues in favor along with knowing that
I'll probably update my inhouse Epia's at some point so I'd be doing it
for internal use at any rate.

The counter argument is i586 support is only going to get harder to
maintain so some point needs to be picked for weaning off of it.  My
guess is I'll do it for 4 but by the time of 5 with a bit luck I can get
rid of my Epias in another upgrade cycle and call that an excuse to stop
supporting Pentiums.

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