Re: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 02:41:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 19:17:15 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 May 2016 13:23:30 Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > Last year it was decided to increase the minimum CPU features for the
> > > i386 architecture to 686-class in the stretch release cycle. This
> > > means dropping support for 586-class and hybrid 586/686
> > > processors[1].(Support for 486-class processors was dropped, somewhat
> > > accidentally, in squeeze.)
> > >
> > > This was implemented in the Linux kernel packages starting with Linux
> > > 4.3, which was uploaded to unstable in December last year.
> >
> > I guess the answer is "no", but just to be sure: does this means that i386
> > supported processors need to implement SSE2?
>
> I suppose this is related to unconditional SSE2 requirement in new Qt
> libraries, (bugs #792594, #794739), for which I thought I had clarified
> the conditions and for which I've provided patches already, but also for
> which I'm not willing to sign the CLA.
>
> This means that Qt and any application using those specific bits, will
> not run at all (silently) in Stretch on any AMD-based i386 CPUs, nor on
> older Intel ones, which I'd assume is a pretty big percent of the i386
> park.
>
Why aren't those bugs RC?
Cheers,
Julien
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