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Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture



Hello,

On 28 September 2015 at 22:44, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> > We propose to drop support for i386 processors older than 686-class in
> > the current release cycle.  This would include folding libc6-i686 into
> > libc6, changing the default target for gcc, and changing the 586 kernel
> > flavour to 686 (non-PAE).
>
> Data point: I recently heard of at least one person who will need to
> buy new hardware as a result of this change.
>

Which hopefully is (a) cheap and (b) pay-off via electricity bill due
to improved power-efficiency ?!

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Regards,

Dimitri.


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