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From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo i486 support
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:22:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180822142216.18909.qmail@stuge.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_=5T+TihqVhGT-s+WPEmi+jSn4qgYwFatq7fGi7CZ4D5g@mail.gmail.com>

Rich Freeman wrote:
> Is there a large population that actually runs x86 on modern
> hardware, or is ancient hardware a significant use case?

There are current products with pre-686 instruction sets.

Companies such as DM&P still produce 586-class SoCs for embedded and
industrial. These[1][2] are current products.

And Intel Quark[3] is another one.

I prefer option number 1 as suggested in the initial mail.


//Peter

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex86
[2] http://www.vortex86.com/?p=264
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-22 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-22 12:26 [gentoo-dev] Gentoo i486 support Ben Kohler
2018-08-22 13:08 ` Rich Freeman
2018-08-22 13:23   ` Mart Raudsepp
2018-08-22 14:22   ` Peter Stuge [this message]
2018-08-22 20:27   ` R0b0t1
2018-08-22 20:39     ` Rich Freeman
2018-08-25 11:07   ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-08-22 13:21 ` James Le Cuirot
2018-08-22 14:30 ` Mike Gilbert
2018-08-22 15:27   ` Thomas Deutschmann
2018-08-22 19:20 ` Matt Turner
2018-08-22 19:27   ` M. J. Everitt
2018-08-22 20:19 ` Richard Yao
2018-08-24 13:19 ` Kent Fredric
2018-08-24 13:57   ` Mike Gilbert
2018-08-24 14:13     ` Rich Freeman
2018-08-24 14:40       ` Kent Fredric

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