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Re: Deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8?
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Ralf Corsepius
<ralf.corsepius@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 08:54 PM, Robert Dewar wrote:
>>
>> On 12/12/2012 2:52 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>>
>>> And as usual: If you use an almost 30 years old architecture, why
>>> would you need the latest-and-greatest compiler technology?
>>> Seriously...
>>
>>
>> Well the embedded folk often end up with precisely this dichotomy :-)
>> But if no sign of 386 embedded chips, then reasonable to deprecate
>
>
> I've never heard about them before, nor do I know how far spread their
> products are, however these folks seem to be producing i386-SoCs
> http://www.dmp.com.tw/
> esp. this one
> http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/vortex86sx/
I've never heard of them either, but according to the manual
ftp://ftp.dmp.com.tw/DMP_Vortex86_Series_Software_Programming_Reference_091216.pdf
page 5, the Vortex86* products are 486 compatible.
That being said, one that same webpage there is
http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/m6117d/
which is mentioned as "386SX" compatible. However, the above PDF,
again page 5, says
"The Vortex86 System-On-Chip (SoC) family was originally designed to
provide product migration path to the existing
user of the DMP M6117D SoC, a 40 MHz x86 SoC introduced to the market
in the early 1990s that reached end-of-life
in 2007."
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Janne Blomqvist