Hi all, due to upstream changes in 2.6.15-rc series, the current i386 386 flavour does not build anymore with plain old M386 support activated. Deactivating those drivers - which need those instructions not available on M386 - is not an option, because for example ACPI and DRI do need CMPXCHG: deactivating those would render the 386 flavour useless on most non-M386 hardware, and as a generic flavour for non-k7 and non-686 CPUs. We dropped the security-buggy x86-i486_emu patch providing software emulation of CMPXCHG and other instructions with the 2.6.12-1 release of linux-2.6, so M386 support was broken anyway in all post-sarge kernel images. For a related discussion before Sarge got released, see [1]. To document this change, the 386 flavour has been renamed to 486 in SVN, and the config has been adapted to M486. 2.6.15-rc5 will be uploaded to experimental soon, containing this change. when 2.6.15 hits unstable, all concerned packages from the debian-installer should cope with this change apropriately. Best regards Frederik Schueler [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/10/msg00027.html -- ENOSIG
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