[ale] Rebuild CentOS 7.X

Jim Kinney jkinney at jimkinney.us
Wed Dec 2 18:42:07 EST 2015


I thought real i386 was dropped from the kernel about 5 years ago. The
kernel goes back as far as i586 instructions (first gen pentium).
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 18:38 -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
> 
> From: "Jim Kinney" <jkinney at jimkinney.us>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 5:28:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Rebuild CentOS 7.X
> That way lies madness!
> 
> http://seven.centos.org/2015/10/centos-linux-7-32-bit-x86-i386-archit
> ecture-released/
> 
> It's already done for you :-)
> 
> This quote concerns me, but I guess I just need to load it and test
> it.
> 
> "This architecture is also known as i386 or i686"
> 
> i686 includes CMOV.  For processors that don't support CMOV that
> would be a problem.  
> 
> Chris
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