Control: reassign -1 installation-guide Hi maintainers, I'm reassigning this bug because these words are from installation-guide, and note from RN. Dixit Samuel Bronson, le 24/11/2013 : >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]. I'd like to add that, despite the fact that gcc has been defaulting to -march=i586, I succesfully installed wheezy 7.3 inside "qemu-system-i386 -cpu 486". (I've only chosen base install and did not make more tests.) >This should be updated. You can find attached a proposed wording for d-i/trunk/manual/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml Baptiste
Index: d-i/trunk/manual/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml =================================================================== --- d-i/trunk/manual/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml (révision 69081) +++ d-i/trunk/manual/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml (copie de travail) @@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ </para> </footnote>. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286 or earlier -chips in the series.) All i486 and later processors are still -supported<footnote> +chips in the series.) Since the Squeeze release (6.0), gcc uses i586 as default arch ; +this means that all i586 and later processors are supported. Debian could still run on i486 +processors (and their clones), but some packages may not run as expected<footnote> <para>
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