No Arch on a Crusoe processor?...Why?

Question

I just read this:
29 Feb Newsletter wrote: 1. Q: I have an AMD K6(-2) or a Transmeta processor, can I install
ArchLinux on it?
A: No. ArchLinux requires an i686 processor, and neither of those
conform to that. You need at least a Pentium2 or AMD K7.
in the newsletter from this past Sunday.
I'm not quite sure why it's thought that Arch can't be run on a Transmeta Crusoe processor.  I have a Fujitsu sub-notebook with a Crusoe (5600?  5800?  One of those...) that I've been running Gentoo on for two years.  I have
-march=i686
in my CFLAGS and everything works fine.  Why is it the belief that Arch can't be run on a Crusoe machine?
In anycase I guess I'll know for sure pretty soon as I'm on my way to fetch my notebook and install Arch on it for the first time.
Added midnight, 4 March:  I got distracted, but I'm in the middle of the install now--just compiling a kernel.  Everything looks good and what I've used to far works fine.  I don't see what the issue is with Transmeta processors.  Of course, that's good news...opens up the distro to another group of users.

Answer 1

m33sb3w wrote:Now I've read some of your other rants on how you claim Gentoo users treat non-Gentooers on their forums.
actually i only said i got very little service (if i even asked any questions on that forum) and on irc. it was on non-Gentoo forums that i have my issues with gentooers.
Should I go back to the Gentoo forums and start posting how some people treat me with derision on these forums?
honestly? i don't care i'm not here to make friends.
If you want to attract people to your distro you shouldn't post things like this.
i don't use arch.
as for using gentoo until you learn the arch's build system .... i had very little experince building anything from source, i am not schooled in any coding language and get bored to tears when people get too technical with their computer discussions and i still learned the build system very quickly. essentially it is not much different than compiling something on your own. just look at the PKGBUILDs in abs and you will learn very quickly.
for the time you have spent porting portage you could have learned the build system. i am not joking either. okay maybe not everything but enough to rebuild your kernel using abs and compile whatever missing packages you need.
i didn't say you were a a moron just weird. i never understand why people moving to another distro try to get it to work like their old distro. i understand the freedom to try distros out but if you are just going to turn your new distro into your old it really makes no sense. it also often acts as a deterent to actually dive in and learn the new distro.