On 2019-02-26, Adam Borowski wrote: > Hi! > Could you guys please educate me what's the matter with SWP on armel these > days? It seems that almost no programs use it anymore. Should I remove the > check for SWP from arch-test, so it reports a machine+kernel as capable of > running armel even if it neither supports nor emulates this instruction? > > I somehow can't reproduce the crashes even with jessie's armel. I remember > reproducing such fails, including more subtle cases where instead of a clean > SIGILL the intruction was silently ignored, resulting in code that appeared > to work unless there's multithreaded lock contention. So where did the > crashes go? I don't claim to understand this anymore... > > Thus, would it be a good idea to just ignore the SWP issue and let > debootstrap proceed? I have a strong feeling this is related to these two bugs, for a little more background: arch-test: reports armel invalid on arm64 system: https://bugs.debian.org/922728 debootstrap: unable to override arch-test: https://bugs.debian.org/922729 live well, vagrant
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