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Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture



On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 09:31:03PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> [Please CC me; not subscribed to -devel.]
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > So far as I know, all current Quark processors have errata that make
> > them unstable, not to mention totally insecure, when running ordinary
> > i386 binaries.

> News to me.  Link please?  Because I don't know what they'd run if *not*
> ordinary x86 binaries, and everyone I know targeting them builds
> ordinary x86 binaries. :)

I don't have a quark, but apparently LOCK prefix is broken:

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-05/msg00144.html

and the related debian bug with link to actual errata:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738575

Riku


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