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Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture



On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 12:04:29 +0300
Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 10:47:43AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > * Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>, 2015-10-06, 09:35:
> > > sed -ne '/^flags\t/{s/\b\(fpu\|tsc\|cx8\|cmov\)\b/%/g;s/[^%
> > > ]*//g;s/%%%%/i686 SUPPORTED/p}' /proc/cpuinfo
> > 
> > Or a more readable version:
> > 
> > [ $(lscpu | grep ^Flags: | grep -owE 'fpu|tsc|cx8|cmov' | wc -l) =
> > 4 ] && echo i686 SUPPORTED
> 
> Phil's second one works for me, yours does not, on a CPU identified as
> "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2540M CPU @ 2.60GHz" in /proc/cpuinfo. I don't
> really know what the right test is (I don't keep of CPU changes), but
> I changed Phil's sed into a shell script that I find more readable.
> Attached. Hopefully that's helpful to someone and not too badly wrong.

Hi!

A minor heads-up: your script incorrectly uses "tac" instead of "tsc".


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