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neotuli

Lazy Developer

From: London, UK

Registered: 2004-07-06

Posts: 1,204

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PentiumPro, anyone?

Hey everyone,
I recently brought up the idea of bumping our processor requirements on arch-dev-public [1]. As you can see, it's just an idea at this point.

In any case, I'm curious to find out how many PentiumPro users we have out there nowadays. I'd imagine there aren't many of you, but if you happen to be one of them, or know one of them, post something here. Note that when i say Pentium Pro, I mean using a processor that doesn't support the MMX instruction set.

Thanks!

[1] http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 05294.html

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AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: PentiumPro, anyone?

http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/archstats/index.php - is this a recent state or collected over a long time? how much can we trust it?

chicha

Member

From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Re: PentiumPro, anyone?

It seems to be no more working since a few weeks now :

http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/archstats/index.php

Latest kernel version registred is 2.6.23  ...

Anyway you have at least 2 PentiumPro users :
Pentium Pro:           |----------------------------------------|      (0.2%)      [2/1199]

smartcat99s

Member

Registered: 2006-03-17

Posts: 44

Re: PentiumPro, anyone?

I have a laptop running a Pentium II (it's no Pentium Pro, but I saw rumblings of moving to P3 on the users ML)

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cucullus

Member

From: Moscow, Russia

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 71

Re: PentiumPro, anyone?

I have dual ppro and I'd going to install arch on it, but it will be no tragedy if ppro support will be dropped.

ekerazha

Member

Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 290

Re: PentiumPro, anyone?

Hey everyone,
I recently brought up the idea of bumping our processor requirements on arch-dev-public [1]. As you can see, it's just an idea at this point.

In any case, I'm curious to find out how many PentiumPro users we have out there nowadays. I'd imagine there aren't many of you, but if you happen to be one of them, or know one of them, post something here. Note that when i say Pentium Pro, I mean using a processor that doesn't support the MMX instruction set.

Thanks!

[1] http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 05294.html

1) Do you think there will be a significative performance improvement?

2) There are also AMD K6-2 CPUs etc. if you only need MMX, use "-mmmx"

Personally, I'd keep i686 and if somebody need MMX support for a particular application, just recompile that application (using ABS)

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: PentiumPro, anyone?

Is there a significant performance improvement when using i686?

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