[CentOS] CentOS 4.0 -> 4.1 update failing
Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org>
thebs413 at earthlink.netMon Jun 20 19:53:54 UTC 2005
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From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> > RedHat doesn't support i586 support at all with CentOS-4 ... not via the > kernel or glibc. CentOS (starting with version 3.3) built an i586 kernel. > CentOS-4 continued this support. > One way to support this would be to use the i386 version. Seems like what > RH recommended on the upstream bug I submitted. I'm sure, based on my prior conversation with Cox, that Red Hat really has absolutely _no_ interest in supporting i586 out of sheer marketshare. It's either i486 (i386) or i686 for them. Unlike i486 and i686, i586 is a _specific_ (and partially buggy**) product -- namely original Pentium and Pentium MMX products and _no_ other. All subsequent Intel products (Pentium Pro on-ward) have been i686. And _all_ clones, cores, etc... have either been i486 or i686 ISA compatible. [ **NOTE: I'm not talking about the FPU bug. That was minor compared to many of its other bugs and, even worse, some real design flaws in the ALU and control. ] -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org
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