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Re: i386 requalification for etch



Martin Zobel wrote:
> On Saturday, 08 Oct 2005, you wrote:
> > Anyone working on assembling the information for this?
> > 
> > It ought to be a slam dunk, but I'd hate to see it not happen because
> > nobody bothered to collect the information.
> 
> do you mean i*3*86 or ia-32?
> i*3*86 died already before sarge release.

IA-32, except it's misleadingly *called* i386.  :-)

Disgustingly, I worked out that we could have revived real i386 support for 
etch thanks to changes in gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.0 which nobody bothered to 
advertise.  But it's too late now, since everything is built with 
arch=i486.  :-P



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