i686 Default Compile

Registered by Duncan McGreggor

Compile for i686 as the default on i386 (instead of i486).

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Robbie Williamson
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Matthias Klose
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Matthias Klose
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for maverick
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon maverick-alpha-3
Started by
Matthias Klose
Completed by
Matthias Klose

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Sprints

Whiteboard

2010-08-24 - doko:
spec/plan was approved at uds/sprint
afaics no items remain, setting to finished.

Work Items for maverick-alpha-3:
[leannogasawara] determine whether kernel options need to change to follow this change (once documented):DONE

2010-06-24 - robbiew:
Re-targeting to Alpha 3

2010-06-21 - ogasawara:
Even though we're still waiting for the spec to be written to know the exact details behind any requested changes, I'm writing down the following initial information:

1) We've already removed the 386 kernel flavour in Maverick. This was done based on hallway discussions at UDS-Maverick.

2) :~/ubuntu-maverick/debian.master/config$ grep -rn "CONFIG_M586=" *
i386/config.flavour.generic:7:CONFIG_M586=y

Currently in Maverick, for i386 we enable the CONFIG_M586 kernel config option which is described as follows:

config M586
        bool "586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX"
        depends on X86_32

2010-07-23 - ogasawara:
As of linux-2.6.35-10.15, we've enabled CONFIG_M686 in the kernel.

(?)

Work Items