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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
===================================================================
--- 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 kernel configuration has been replaced by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 &amp;&amp; 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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