Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel
I demand that Bastian Blank may or may not have written...
> I would like to raise the minimum CPU requirement for the shipped Linux
> kernels in the i386 port to i686 (with cmov). For now I will not propose a
> change of the default machine type setting used by the compiler.
WRT squeeze, pre- or post-release?
(I have access to a 486 and a PMMX, as it happens. Both have lenny
installations, but see next to no usage.)
[snip]
> and the successors will be available for at least 10 years at the release
> of Squeeze.
As in "machines using (some of) those CPUs will be around for at least 10
years after squeeze is released"? Or did you mean "will have been available"?
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