On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 12:08 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Andreas Barth wrote: > > Specific issues: > > - for i386, there is still sold new hardware with 32bit-only. Are > > there open issues for i386 (apart from the 32bit-generic ones)? > > Discussion that we need to get rid of it one day should be started. > > Brand-new 32-bit-only x86 hardware is currently being sold, and will > continue to be in the future. In particular, the Quark embedded > platform is a 32-bit x86, roughly i586-class, with no 64-bit support, > and no MMX or SSE, though it has a few modern instruction set extensions > (notably for security). So, i386 needs to stick around for the > foreseeable future. [...] The last I heard, all Quark chips have serious bugs that prevent Debian i386 from running on them. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
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