Re: [PATCH] i386 rw_semaphores fix

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2001 - 07:32:29 EST


> My reasoning is that who uses a 386 is not interested in speed, so a little
> bit more slowness is not that bad.
>
> You realize that the alternative for distributions is to drop 386 support
> completely?

Rubbish. Mandrake and Red Hat have been shipping multiple kernel images,
multiple gzips and multiple glibc's for a very long time. It is quite simply
not a problem.

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