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| author | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2010-03-03 22:47:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2010-03-03 22:47:55 +0100 |
| commit | fe7c96ed677aef866d6dea05f9b10244b1eb454a (patch) | |
| tree | 4f9d21161f637e19b13c303aa31333c129362d43 | |
| parent | 37b729040351e7cf1649e6c9ee3ed596d67503ad (diff) | |
be factually accurate to avoid confusion over which i686 cpus we support and why. see http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-October/000763.html
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/official_installation_guide_en | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/official_installation_guide_en b/doc/official_installation_guide_en index a61bcec..309c1d4 100644 --- a/doc/official_installation_guide_en +++ b/doc/official_installation_guide_en @@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ and are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). ## Architectures Arch Linux is optimized for i686 and x86_64 processors and therefore will not -run on any lower or incompatible generations of x86 CPUs (i386,i486 or i586). +run on any lower or incompatible generations of x86 CPUs (i386, i486 or i586). A Pentium Pro, Pentium II or AMD Athlon (K7) processor or higher is required. +(technically, cpu's without the cmov instruction such as AMD K6 and via C3 are also +i686, but we use gcc and it uses cmov instructions) Before installing Arch Linux, you should decide which installation method you would like to use. |