Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 06:48:26AM +0000, Riku Voipio wrote:
> 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
Gah. Thanks for the info; that's all kinds of awful.
I find myself rather astounded that stock Debian worked for me, then.
And I retract the objection; go ahead and remove i586 support.
- Josh Triplett
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