Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore
Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille@chepelov.org> a tapoté :
> Le Fri, Jun 20, 2003, à 07:15:45PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer a écrit:
>
> > > but dropping all Pentiums until Pentium II generation
> > > seems completely foolish. I hope I misunderstood your message.
> >
> > I'd drop the sub-pentiums (i.e. 386 and 486) entirely. Not that my vote
> > would count...
>
> Hmmm. Until all of glibc, the kernel and gcc deprecate and discard support
> for 386 and 486, I'd love if I could keep my home edgge router running the
> way it is thank you very much (and I'm happy with the great job the Security
> Team is doing). Not that the flea market value of a Pentium Classic is that
> high nowadays, but why fix what works? I thought Free Software was above
> planned obsolescence...
RedHat provide glibc for i386, i586 and i686. Why doesn't Debian
provide several packages for i*86 when the package can be optimized a
lot depending on the CPU type?
Hard disk space on the pool?
Someone mentionned gstreamer, telling it uses optimization included
in i586. Why not, for this package, at the option of the maintainer,
provide gstreamer*.i386 and gstreamer*.i586 in the pool?
A user that try "apt-get/aptitude install gstreamer" with a computer
=< i586 will get the optimized package, the others will get the legacy
package.
It may creates extra works but this way Debian can keep a wide
support of i386 (asked by some people on that thread) while providing
optimized binaries for people that run recent hardware (asked by some
on people on that thread too).
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