[CentOS-devel] CentOS-5 i586 status?
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.orgTue Apr 22 18:02:01 UTC 2008
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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 at 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
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