Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
There is currently a long thread on the develop list about the possibility of dropping support from the i386 architecture for at best just 386 processorsand at worst everything except 686 processors. ...I found generally embedded units requires adhoc installations, I do not find that proposal a so grave issue. I'm more concerned about cross-development tools availability and other building blocks.
That's a good point. Embedded folks using 386 processors don't need every Debian package. They're perfectly capable of compiling the packages they do need themselves, and given the proper cross-compiler, that's not so hard. By the way, I've written a script that downloads the binutils/gcc/glibc sources and builds cross-compilers for any architecture supported by glibc. I'm quite sure it can pop out an i686->i386 cross-compiler in an hour or two with little or no effort required. It's at http://kegel.com/crosstool That should take care of the corss-development tools availability! - Dan -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045