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[pascal hardyn]

John & Mary Cook a écrit :

> Can anyone tell me what "Platform i586" is?
>
> Thank You,
>
> JT Cook
>
>

Hello John (Mhhh, good morning 8-))

A 'Platform i586' is a computer with at least a Pentium as CPU.
(Pentium, Pentium II,III and IV, AMD K6, AMD K7, AMD Athlon XP, AMD
Sempron)
A '64 bits platform' is a computer with a cpu like Xeon, Pentium EMT64
or AMD 64.

Sorry for my poor english

Regards

Pascal

[Ian O'Brien]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:44:41 -0800, John & Mary Cook wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what "Platform i586" is?
>
> Thank You,
>
> JT Cook

As taken from wikipedia:

A Pentium-compatible processor is a 32 bit processor computer chip which
uses an instruction set that is a superset of the version of the IA-32
instruction set as used by the original Intel Pentium processor (also
known as the Classic Pentium)

so...this means Pentium Family up until the latest stuff which is i686...
by being Platform i586, that means that the software was designed to run
on pentium machines. software that is i686 is compiled to run more
efficiently on newer hardware

hope this helps!

[John & Mary Cook]

Can anyone tell me what "Platform i586" is?

Thank You,

JT Cook

[Centurion]

John & Mary Cook wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what "Platform i586" is?
>
> Thank You,
>
> JT Cook

The i586 platform is simply the Pentium classic. IOW, P75-P200MMX and AMD
K6 class machines that typically shipped with a "Socket7". Despite what
another poster has written, the i586 class machines DO NOT include the
later PPro/P2/P3/P4 and AMD K7/K8 CPU's. Even though a i586 kernel will
run on these later CPU's there are other (better alternatives). The
important thing is to never try and run a i686 kernel on Pentium classic/K6
system - they will fail to boot.

Some distributions have i585-MMX kernels which can be used on the
P166MMX-P233MMX CPU's (and equivalent K6's) to improve performance by
leveraging the MMX command extensions. These kernels WILL NOT boot on the
non-MMX Pentiums.

The i686 kernels cover all newer CPU's from the PentiumPro/PentiumII through
to current generation Intel/AMD architectures. However, the VERY new kit
(think 64bit) will usually benefit from further customisation with a K8 or
_64 type "architecture" kernel.

HTH,

James
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