On Friday, January 30 2009, Bill Nottingham said:
- XO support
There is concern that building for i686 might break binaries on the XO.
The Geode on the XO self-reports as i586; this may need slight frobbing.
Aside from that, it "supports the i686 (Pentium Pro) instruction set, MMX,
the parts of SSE that do not involve SSE registers, 3DNow! Enhanced, a
couple Geode-specific instructions and a few SSE2 instructions."
(
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Geode_instruction_set)
This implies it should work; however, there have been bugs in the past
(
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=200330). Chris Ball stated
"my input as OLPC software dude is that we're probably okay with dropping
586, but it would be great if someone heled us test that everything's
looking okay first."
The live images have been doing i686 kernel and glibc and work okay on
the XO. So add that as more anecdotal evidence of it not being a
problem
Jeremy