Is i686 the minimum required for HotSpot on x86?

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Andrew,

It would be nice to have call stack trace. I looked on attached hs_er* files and non of them has it. JIT (Client VM) 
should not emit cmov instruction if it is not supported. Also there was suggestion in the report about running with 
-Xint, did it help? I surprise someone still try to run Hotspot on i586 ;) I can't even find P4 around here. And we 
definitely do not test on such machine (i586) so it is not supported.

Vladimir

On 3/29/11 7:26 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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,