[Udpcast] UDP Cast ready-made boot images and i686 issues

[Alain Knaff]

Henrique Rodrigues wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been using UDP Cast extensively for a while now and I love it, but I
> had an issue last week and I want to share it witou you.
> 
> The UDP Cast website provides handy ready-made boot images. Apparently,
> those images are compiled for i686 and I couldn't make them work on an
> older machine because the processor doesn't implement the CMOV operation.
> The problem seem to belong to GCC, because it thinks that every i686
> processor implements the optional CMOV operation, which is not true.
> 
> I solved the problem by compiling my own UDP Cast kernel, but I suggest
> that the next UDP Cast ready-made boot images drop the i686 requirement
> and stick to i386, for compatibility reasons.
> 
> Is this a reasonable request?
> 
> Thank you and best regards,
> 
> Henrique Rodrigues
> 

I'll take note of this for the next release

Alain