> However Red Hat seems to have solved the same problem with RH 7.0 - > despite whatever else that release is. They do this by compiling to a > target CPU of i686 but keeping the target platform to i386. Not too > ideal for AMD users I suppose (I have one Intel and one AMD box myself) > but better than nothing? >
The optimised binaries are still supposed to run on standard i386 systems. This is the setting used to compile the majority of Red Hat packages - all of those with the i386.rpm extension, basically. A few packages are compiled with a target platform of i586 and i686 - the various kernel images for example, only those would not work on a lower CPU. I have not actually tried running RH 7 on an i486 but I'm sure it would work. So the question is, why not adopt this for Debian too? Regards, Michel PS *please* use Reply-All when responding to this
