[CentOS-docs] Article on building i586 CentOS-5 kernel

Mon Jan 11 21:21:40 UTC 2010
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
> 2010/1/11 Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>:
>>
>> If there is reasonable interest in running a i586 tree, then imho, a SIG
>> dedicated to this would be the best route to go. It would also make it
>> possible to have a i586 specific tree that can be maintained in parallel
>> to the main core distro.
>
> Hmm. More good points that need careful consideration. So, depending
> upon interest, this may turn out to be a personal project for Timothy
> just to run C5 on those few of his systems.

In fact, there was such an initiative almost 2 years ago as seen in
this thread on the centos-devel mailing list:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-April/002671.html

Here is the relevant wiki page:

http://wiki.centos.org/Projects/CentOS5PentiumSupport

So, indeed, if anyone is interested in resurrecting the effort, it is
best started in the -devel list.

Akemi