Bug#783012: 'Kernel flavour selection' for i386 does not apply to wheezy upgrade
Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The removal of the '686' flavour happened in wheezy and should not
be mentioned in the jessie release notes.
(There is another flavour change in jessie: '486' was replaced by
'586'. But it's probably not worth noting as the CPU features
required have not changed, only the name has changed to reflect
reality.)
Ben.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Index: en/upgrading.dbk
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--- en/upgrading.dbk (revision 10789)
+++ en/upgrading.dbk (working copy)
@@ -871,26 +871,6 @@
</para>
</section>
-<section arch="i386" id="kernel-flavour-686">
- <title>Kernel flavor selection</title>
- <para>
- Debian's <literal>686</literal> kernel configuration has been replaced by
- the <literal>686-pae</literal> configuration, which uses PAE
- (<quote>Physical Address Extension</quote>). If your computer is currently
- running the <literal>686</literal> configuration but does not have
- PAE, you will need to switch to the <literal>486</literal> configuration
- instead. You can check whether your computer has PAE by running:
- <screen>
-$ grep -q '^flags.*\bpae\b' /proc/cpuinfo && echo yes || echo no</screen>
- If it does not (i.e. the above command outputs <literal>no</literal>), you
- should install <systemitem role="package">linux-image-486</systemitem> and
- then remove <systemitem role="package">linux-image-686</systemitem> and/or
- <systemitem role="package">linux-image-2.6-686</systemitem> if they are
- currently installed.
- </para>
-
-</section>
-
<section id="minimal-upgrade">
<title>Minimal system upgrade</title>
<para>
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