Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Sun Nov 08 2009 - 15:41:14 EST


Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> But no standard distribution will be made available in a geode special
> version - not enough machines in the marekt. So I think it is better to
> be able to use the i686 specific things they already support, like
> libc6-686 from debian for example.

If it's only libc issue (and maybe of a couple of other packages like
gzip and bzip2), then I think it would be preferable for distributions
to provide a version optimized for Geode, without kernel hacks.
Though I guess the above is not actually the case, is it?
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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