On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 12:45 -0700, Kip Warner wrote: > Greetings Everyone, > > I've been looking for a while, but no luck. Is there a table somewhere > that summarizes the different architecture names like i386, i586, i686, > amd64, ia64, and so on along with the criteria for hardware qualifying > under that name? 'i386' covers Intel 486 and compatible processors (originally 386 and compatible). 'amd64' covers AMD64 and Intel 64 processors. 'ia64' covers Intel Itanium processors. > e.g. Does i686 mandate SSE2? Debian doesn't commonly use the architecture names 'i586' or 'i686'. There are a few packages that are named using the suffix '-686' or '-i686', and their descriptions explain what this means: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.32-4-686 http://packages.debian.org/sid/libc6-i686 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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