[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Sinner from the Prairy sinnerbofh at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 19:44:00 CEST 2010


patrice.brunelle at free.fr wrote:

> Wikipedia says that X86_64 include SSE/SSE2. All the new processors are 64
> bits. So I don't think it is necessary to change i586 to i686. 32 bits
> platform will die soon. Also it is more important to keep more
> compatibility for 32 bits.

Well said.

No need to maintain extra repos with minor imoprovements on target archs.

Salut,
Sinner



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