i386 vs i686 was Configured kernel source code ... What is it

[G Gambill]

FoulDragon,

Thanks

George

> From: FoulDragon at aol.com
> Subject: Re: i386 vs i686 was Configured kernel source code ... What
> 	is it
>
> I think it's just different optimizations.
>
> A PPro, PII, PIII are definitely i686 though, so it's a reasonable choice.
>
> I recall if you told FreeBSD (3.3) to make a i686 kernel, it
> WOULDN'T run on
> a lower class, which led to my surprise discovery that a K6 was
> i586 class,
> not i686.
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