Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 04:11 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 23 October 2006 03:38, Roy Bamford wrote: > > I suspect the liveCD x86 kernel does not include FPU Emulation, in > > which case we already require 386/387 as the minimum hardware level. > > ok ? i dont see how that is different

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 08:38 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > I suspect the liveCD x86 kernel does not include FPU Emulation, in > which case we already require 386/387 as the minimum hardware level. Actually, the minimal CD is built for i486 and the LiveCD is built for i686. It says as much in the H

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 17:42 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 10:03, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Dropping support for "i386" means not being able to use the "i386-*" > > CHOST. > > you've hinted at the point of my e-mail ... moving forward, do we change our > min supported

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 23 October 2006 03:38, Roy Bamford wrote: > I suspect the liveCD x86 kernel does not include FPU Emulation, in > which case we already require 386/387 as the minimum hardware level. ok ? i dont see how that is different from what is expected; we release i386 stages and our livecds supp

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-23 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.10.22 22:42, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 22 October 2006 10:03, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Dropping support for "i386" means not being able to use the "i386-*" > CHOST. you've hinted at the point of my e-mail ... moving forward, do we change our min supported version to i486 ? Debian

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 22 October 2006 10:03, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Dropping support for "i386" means not being able to use the "i386-*" > CHOST. you've hinted at the point of my e-mail ... moving forward, do we change our min supported version to i486 ? Debian did this quite some time ago ... -mike pg

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 17:43 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 21 October 2006 04:53, Roy Bamford wrote: > > "cut off" as in nothing for i386 or leave i386 at glibc-2.5? > > i havent really decided ... i would like to settle on one version though for > no-nptl/i386/glibc-compat20/etc...

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 09:53 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > On 2006.10.21 09:02, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > we're going to have to cut off support for i386 targets starting with > > glibc-2.6 ... the upstream plans are to require TLS and i386 does not > > have > > the atomic instructions required to sup

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-22 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.10.21 22:43, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 21 October 2006 04:53, Roy Bamford wrote: > "cut off" as in nothing for i386 or leave i386 at glibc-2.5? i havent really decided ... i would like to settle on one version though for no-nptl/i386/glibc-compat20/etc... > What is the lowest IA

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-21 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 21 October 2006 04:53, Roy Bamford wrote: > "cut off" as in nothing for i386 or leave i386 at glibc-2.5? i havent really decided ... i would like to settle on one version though for no-nptl/i386/glibc-compat20/etc... > What is the lowest IA32 arch that will be supported ? i486 -mike

Re: [gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-21 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.10.21 09:02, Mike Frysinger wrote: we're going to have to cut off support for i386 targets starting with glibc-2.6 ... the upstream plans are to require TLS and i386 does not have the atomic instructions required to support it some other implications ... the glibc-compat20 people will al

[gentoo-dev] support for i386

2006-10-21 Thread Mike Frysinger
we're going to have to cut off support for i386 targets starting with glibc-2.6 ... the upstream plans are to require TLS and i386 does not have the atomic instructions required to support it some other implications ... the glibc-compat20 people will also be stuck with glibc-2.5 (as that implie