Bug#730441: release-notes: Debian requires an i586 since at least squeeze
Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Looking at <http://bugs.debian.org/609690>, it seems that gcc has been
defaulting to -march=i586 at least since squeeze, or r4557 in the GCC
packaging SVN [1].
This would seem to indicate that you now need at least a 586 to run
Debian.
However, section 2.1.2.1 CPU of the release notes still says:
> However, Debian GNU/Linux wheezy will not run on 386 or earlier
> processors. Despite the architecture name "i386", support for actual
> 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge
> (r3.1) release of Debian[2]. (No version of Linux has ever supported
> the 286 or earlier chips in the series.) All i486 and later
> processors are still supported[3].
This should be updated.
[1]: <http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/gcccvs?view=revision&revision=4557>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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