On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:54:42PM +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Adam Foran adam@foran.ca wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 19:42 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Would you like to bring some people together to work on this ? I dont even mind sitting through and being a part of the effort, however, someone else is going to need to do the heavy lifting.
I'm very happy to help with an effort like this, but I won't be able to spend more than a few hours a week on a project like this, so I'm not sure if I can realistically offer to do more than help with the testing.
From your perspective, how big of effort would it be to get CentOS-5
running on a i586?
686 without cmov instructions does not need much work anymore package-wise, so most of the work there is probably in patching Anaconda to work on i686 without cmov. This work could also catch i586, but I am not completely sure, because I do not have a i586 to test with.
Anyway, I have moved our notes/status page to: http://wiki.centos.org/Projects/CentOS5PentiumSupport
This should provide some information to interested people about what is done, and what needs to be done.
If you want, add a section on that page of users willing to test this. I'm definitely willing and have two VIA C3 based systems I can test with. Don't believe I have any i586 hardware but could dig around.
Is there a mantis bug that will be used for tracking this? I think I've subscribed myself to that wiki page, but would like to keep "in the loop" if possible.
Ray