Control: tag -1 moreinfo Hi Baptiste, first of all, thanks for the reassign and the patch. Baptiste Jammet <baptiste@mailoo.org> (2014-02-15): > Control: reassign -1 installation-guide Please cc maintainers when reassigning, otherwise the mail isn't sent to them. Also, please always cc bug submitters (debbugs doesn't do that on its own). > I'm reassigning this bug because these words are from > installation-guide, and note from RN. > > Dixit Samuel Bronson, le 24/11/2013 : > > >Looking at <http://bugs.debian.org/609690>, it seems that gcc has been > >defaulting to -march=i586 at least since squeeze, or r4557 in the GCC > >packaging SVN [1]. > > > >This would seem to indicate that you now need at least a 586 to run > >Debian. > > > >However, section 2.1.2.1 CPU of the release notes still says: > > > >> However, Debian GNU/Linux wheezy will not run on 386 or earlier > >> processors. Despite the architecture name "i386", support for actual > >> 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge > >> (r3.1) release of Debian[2]. (No version of Linux has ever supported > >> the 286 or earlier chips in the series.) All i486 and later > >> processors are still supported[3]. > > I'd like to add that, despite the fact that gcc has been defaulting to > -march=i586, I succesfully installed wheezy 7.3 inside > "qemu-system-i386 -cpu 486". > (I've only chosen base install and did not make more tests.) > > >This should be updated. > > You can find attached a proposed wording for > d-i/trunk/manual/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml > > Baptiste > Index: d-i/trunk/manual/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml > =================================================================== > --- d-i/trunk/manual/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml (r??vision 69081) > +++ d-i/trunk/manual/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml (copie de travail) > @@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ > </para> > > </footnote>. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286 or earlier > -chips in the series.) All i486 and later processors are still > -supported<footnote> > +chips in the series.) Since the Squeeze release (6.0), gcc uses i586 as default arch ; > +this means that all i586 and later processors are supported. Debian could still run on i486 > +processors (and their clones), but some packages may not run as expected<footnote> > > <para> FWIW, there's also: https://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2011/11/msg00073.html We could probably update the squeeze section, but it might make sense to keep that open until jessie's fate is decided; tagging moreinfo accordingly. (If someone wants to commit and close this bug report, please clone it first to keep track of jessie's future.) Mraw, KiBi.
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