[lxc-devel] Any reason i386 architecture is missing?

Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano at free.fr
Sat Oct 2 07:45:03 UTC 2010


On 10/02/2010 02:24 AM, Scott Bronson wrote:
> I'm surprised at lxc's choice of recognized architectures: x86, i686,
> x86_64, and amd64.
>
> Any reason for omitting i386?
>
> Fedora uses i386 and x86_64
> Debian/Ubuntu use i686 and amd64.
> I haven't seen x86 before but it does make sense.  What distro uses it?
>
>      - Scott
>
>
>
>         struct per_name {
>                 char *name;
>                 int per;
>         } pername[4] = {
>                 { "x86", PER_LINUX32 },
>                 { "i686", PER_LINUX32 },
>                 { "x86_64", PER_LINUX },
>                 { "amd64", PER_LINUX },
>         };
>    

I should have set i386 instead of x86, I will change it.

Thanks
   -- Daniel




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