I understand (and I understood this from the start) that the bug is in the way the C3 is reported, I also understand that mandrake 9.0 is advertised as being for i586! In which case, why is there the ability tp optomise for i686, surely this should be something that is done after installation. If you are going to say 'so people who have i686 machines will have faster/better machines' then it should also optimise for athlons as well!!! rowland
on Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 7:53 pm, Ben Reser wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:03:53PM +0100, rowland wrote: > > everybody who has an i686 machine is missing the point. Every rpm on the > > installation cd's are for i568, so why is there a directory named i686. > > the fact is that if the rpms are for i586 then the kernel should be for > > i586 and anybody who has a i586 should recompile the kernel themselves. > > ok the processer or the software that identifies it is bugged, but if the > > i686 directory had not been there, this whole problem would not have > > happened :-) > > No the bug would have still been there. You just wouldn't have had a > problem with it. The bug is *NOT* the presence of the i686 directory. > The bug is the incorrect detection of your processor as being i686 not > i586. Deleting the i686 is just a work around for the problem.
