On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:24:15PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
This issue was discussed in the thread "Making NPTL the default
for FC3,
vanilla i386 support". Both i386s and i486s are already no longer
supported since FC 1. Try running rpm on either of these CPUs and see it
fail. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103078 .
It depends which 486 variant, and its only rpm thata affected.
More relevantly, dropping 486 compatibility buys you nothing. The pentium
added no useful "essential" instruction that makes a big difference while the
486 added several features