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Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor



On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 15:14 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Nov 19, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I think it is time to increase the minimum requirement to 586-class, if
> > not for wheezy then immediately after.
> I agree, it's time to weight the costs and benefits of supporting
> obsolete hardware at the expense of most users.
> 
> > (Later it should be increased
> > further, and eventually i386 should be reduced to a partial architecture
> > that may be installed on amd64 systems.)
> Yes, but how much later? :-)

At the latest:

wheezy+2 (2016): require 686-class with PAE
wheezy+4 (2020): i386 is a partial architecture

But I think we could be more aggressive than that.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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