Jonathan Dieter (jdieter(a)gmail.com) said:
> The 1% comes from i586 -> i686; SSE2 would be additional on
top of
> that. But given the vehement opposition, I can see dropping the SSE2
> requirement. I'm still fairly convinced that going to i686 is the right
> move - we really don't support i586 as a practical matter, and even
> the Geode should still work with that. Furthermore, it's likely we'll
> have a mass rebuild for LZMA support and/or debuginfo changes, so it's
> no additional cost.
This may have been asked before, but is the Celeron M processor in the
EeePC 701 i686? It supports both SSE2 and cmov, but not PAE.
PAE isn't a required part of i686; that's why there's always been
a separate PAE kernel.
Bill