Re: RFC: pentium optimized debian
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 02:47:42PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > If you mean, a sperate arch with only a few pentium optmized packages in it,
> > and apt gets the rest from i386, the problem with this is that we have to
> > modify dpkg to recognise pentium as a sperate arch, and recognise that you
> > can still install i386 packages.
>
> I think that ultimately this will work out better. No matter what choice
> you make you -will- need another directory on the ftp site to store them,
> might as well call it binary-i686. Remember that alot of other arch's have
> target specific binaries that make use of target specific
> instructions/optimizations (arm, alpha, sparc do at least)
I don't think i686 is accurate; Intel certainly don't have a chip called
that, and it would be i586 anyway. So I would prefer to call it pentium.
Hamish
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