I agree. Speaking just for myself, I have at least one other 32-bit system that currently runs Debian 11, and I'd prefer to not just upgrade it and hope it works as a means of testing whether or not it's supported. If the distinction between "supported" and "not supported" is going to come down to specific assembler-level instructions, it would seem that that wont tell most people anything.
A list of processors doesn't have to be exhaustive. It only has to list whatever has been reported as known to work or not. Feedback from the popularity-contest package might be useful here.
This is essentially the way that flashrom does it. They tell you what they know for sure, and what's a guess, and what they don't know. After that, they've done the best they can do and you have to make a good decision.
--J
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Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> writes:
Is there an page that tabulates release name and detailed hardware
baseline - if i want to know "what release can run on a computer with X
processor", is is there somewwhere i go to research that? it would be
useful for release-notes to link to such a page