On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:43, Oden Eriksson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Guy.Bormann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 3:18 PM > Subject: Re: [Cooker] mmx and such > > > > [snip] > > > > > It's not a matter of complaining or not, it's a matter of minimal > support. > > > Mandrake Linux is supposed to run on any i586 or newer processor. > Period. > > Even if that means a crazy person is encoding videos on a i586(no MMX), > > say, 166MHz (or somewhere near) without hardware acceleration???? Must be > > surely someone with paaattttiieeeennnccceeeee! > > I have to concur. Mandrake Linux won't even pass first boot on non i686 due > to the /lib/i686 mess. Because of this Mandrake can not state that it runs > on i586 and later. What's the point with /lib/i686? It isn't possible to > have i386, i486, i586, ppc, etc. in there also? >
Hmmm, this is not true: # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2 model name : Pentium 75 - 200 stepping : 12 cpu MHz : 150.347 I wouldn't try encoding any video on it, but it boots, using glibc-2.3.1-10mdk and kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk. -- _ _ _ _ | |_____| | |_/ | | / / -_) | / / | |_\_\___|_|_\_\_| @ sbcglobal.net
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