Re: [Syllable-kernel] upcoming Syllable patches..

[BurningShadow <syl...@bu...>]

I got a 486 somewhere (and it should be working), so I can test it.

But who would run it on a 486? The 486 hasn’t been in active sale for many many years, and I don’t think that Syllable should be known as a you-can-run-it-on-your-oldest-computer system. That’s the way people (in Denmark) see Linux, and now they can’t understand why they can’t run Fedora on their pre-pentium system.

In fact I think the exact upper side should be done.10 years from now, there will be almost no 32bit’s left, so at that time it won’t make sense to keep 32bit code. It should be wiped out, in order to keep the system up-to-date.

>Otherwise, it's probably never going to get fixed.
And I think that’s the best.



>> The NexGen Nx586, AMD/Cyrix 5x86s, 486s etc, don't have it at all. Not that
>> Syllable can currently run on those because of a couple of lines of Kurt's
>> i586 assembler enthusiasm, but someone's going to want to sooner or later :)
>
>Besides the code which assumes the presence of the cpuid instruction, is 
>there any other assembly language code that anyone knows of that is 
>keeping it from working on 486s?  I know how to fix the cpuid code to 
>detect if the machine doesn't support cpuid, but how many people these 
>days have access to a 486-class machine with math coprocessor that they 
>want to run Syllable on?  If you do, let me know and I may be able to 
>work something out.  Otherwise, it's probably never going to get fixed.
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