Hi Martin-Éric, On 04-06-2023 21:28, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
As previously stated, the Geode LX (but not older Geodes) does fulfill the baseline requirement for i686. NOPL, PAE and others were marked by Intel as optional features. If what the new Debian baseline really means is something that can run the -686-pae kernel, the release notes should explicitly say so.
I believe you are more aware of the problems with the Geode than I, as it were your bugs that lead to the update in the release notes. If I understand correctly the kernel still runs fine, but a bunch of important binaries use NOPL and hence fail on the Geode. We could add a check for NOPL, like I mentioned in the MR.
On a related issue, something in dpkg or apt should check the CPU features and refuse to perform an upgrade/dist-upgrade on an host whose CPU doesn't meet the new baseline requirements.
Please file a bug with the respective packages. Mentioning it in a bug against the release notes isn't going to achieve that feature.
Paul
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