https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=186074 aj@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX ------- Comment #37 from aj@novell.com 2006-10-13 02:38 MST ------- We discussed this yesterday internally, here's the summary of what we think: * some cpus have uname of i686 but do not support for the full i686 instruction set used by the compiler if compiling for i686, e.g. VIA Epia C3. * SUSE Linux runs on smaller systems as well, e.g. VIA boxes, for set top boxes and routers. * For most applications compilation on i686 will not make a speed difference for the user. * We optimize for i686 but use i586 instructions, the discussion is about using i686 instructions as well. * We already supply a few packages, e.g. glibc, for both i586 and i686. * We could add more packages as both i586 and i686. This is a question of size on ftp/media as well. * One way would be to switch at run-time between different code paths (one for i586, one for i686). * We should evaluate to setup i686 as an additional target in the build service for a couple of packages to rebuild with different compile flags. Therefore we stay as is for 32-bit x86 and use the i586 instruction set. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.