i386 is for any architecture, i586 is for Pentiums, Cyrix/IBM PR and MII
chips, K6 and K6/2 and everything above that, i686 is for Pentium Pro,
PII, PIII, PIV, Athalon, Celeron, Duron, the new Cyrix chips, etc.
But remember, everything is backward compatible; a PIII can run i686,
i586 and i386, no problem.; might be a little less efficient, but it
works. I still think gcc needs to come with flags for non-Intel
chips, though, so that those of us running non-Intel can compile
to our specific chip....
Bill Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 12:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Intel Arch
I'm trying to download the source code to configure the kernel and have
three different RPM's to choice from
linux-2.2.14-5.0.i386.rpm
linux-2.2.14-5.0.i586.rpm
linux-2.2.14-5.0.i686.rpm
I just want to make sure i386 is for old 486's and earlier, while i586's are
Pentiums, and i686's are the new Pentium II and III's. Is this correct?
SK
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