On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 20:43 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > 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). > > Could please provide information that helps to identify systems > affected by this? Probably that is absence of certain flags in > /proc/cpuinfo. FWIW, I suspect none of my remaining i386 installations > will have issues from that switch but I'd like to know in advance. So far as I know the required feature flags are: fpu tsc cx8 cmov; and the CPUs that have them are: * AMD Geode GX, LX, SC1200 * Cyrix MII * Intel Pentium M 'Banias' * NSC Geode GXLV(?), GX1, GX/GX2, GXm, SC1100 * Transmeta Crusoe * VIA C3-2 'Nehemiah' These CPUs additionally have pae and can run the 686-pae flavour: * AMD Geode NX, Athlon (K7), Athlon 64, Duron, Opteron, Sempron, Turion, Phenom, etc. * Intel Pentium Pro/II/III/4/4M/D, Xeon, Core, Atom, Pentium M 'Dothan', Celeron, etc. * Transmeta Efficeon * VIA C7, Nano Ben. -- Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source
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