Is i686 the minimum required for HotSpot on x86?

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

We've just had a bug report for IcedTea which suggests that
HotSpot fails on any x86 platform below i686.

The report is:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=682

and shows a failure caused by an attempt by the JIT to emit
an instruction which isn't present on i586.

Does HotSpot require i686 as a minimum? Or is there something
else at fault here?

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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