On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 10:13 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Personally, I'd say 686 is the lowest reasonable to support at this point.
That's pretty much our target. > Below that, try an appropriate binary distribution and save the days/weeks > of compiling. Of course, Gentoo is highly customizable, and folks could > try it on 386 if they wanted, but I don't believe it's worth supporting > below 686 at this point. That's personally. I'm sure there are folks > that would argue we should at least support 586, but I simply don't > believe it's worth it. There's a difference between "support" and "ability". You will retain the ability to install on < i686 machines. We just don't want to support it. This means we aren't going to be pushing out lots of new media for them. I have a set of legacy media that I plan on pushing out. It is all built with the 2006.1 snapshot. The media is an installcd, a stage set (stage1/2/3) for "x86" compiled against the no-nptl profile, a stage set for "i586" compiled against the 2006.1 profile, and a stage set for "i586" compiled against the no-nptl profile. I don't plan on upgrading these until we switch over to the new multiple-inheritance profiles, at which point, I'll likely build a set of stages again for legacy hardware. The stages won't be supported, but they'll be available. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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