Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 9:02 PM Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> wrote:
> On 16-03-2023 20:20, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > The release notes for i386 should specify the minimum CPU requirements.
>
> Thanks for letting us know. If we raise the baseline, historically we
> mention it in the release notes. I (as a member of the release team)
> wasn't aware we might have done so until now.

I purposely filed a bug for this because a number of Debian
maintainers seem to be under the impression that Geode LX hasn't been
supported for a couple of Debian releases. Pointing out that the -686
kernel is build for exactly that doesn't seem to convince them. I
therefore feel that this needs to be made more explicit in the release
notes.

$ grep MGEODE_LX /boot/config-6.1.0-6-686
CONFIG_MGEODE_LX=y

> > Additionally, other packages apparently disregard build-essentials' GCC defaults and instead configure flags to match the CPU features of the build host, which produces binaries that segfault on a Geode.
>
> Those are in principle all RC bugs and don't only impact Geode. Please
> file bugs when you find them.

I regularly do. See above for the usual response I get.

Martin-Éric