[Gllug] Are i386 & i586 rpm's interchangeable?

[Bruce Richardson]

On 8/16/01, 5:31:25 PM, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote regarding 
Re: [Gllug] Are i386 & i586 rpm's interchangeable?:


> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:55:19PM +0100, Paul Brazier wrote:
> > Or is there some degree of backwards compatibility for the x86's at the
> > machine code level?
> A 486 will barf if it meets one of the new 586 instructions; however they
> are compatible for the vast majority of the instruction set.

And its a very bad idea to have a kernel compiled for a newer cpu than 
the actual one;)


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Bruce

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