Bug#231538: libc6: illegal instruction on a 386
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:43:30AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Karolina Lindqvist writes:
> > l?rdagen den 7 februari 2004 18.01 you wrote:
> > > This is not a bug, i386 support is dropped, gcc is configured to
> > > generate code for i486 and up. IIRC the kernel binaries for i386 do
> > > have a patch for emulation support for non-i386 instructions.
> >
> > So it's not a bug, but a feature. I could have gussed that. It would be
> > helpful if libc6, or something, actually had a Depend on the required kernel
> > version.
> > I am running a vanilla debian kernel, 2.4.18-1-386 version 2.4.18.12-1, on
> > that machine, which obviously is not enough.
> > The corresponding kernel from sid is called
> > 2.4.18-386 version 2.4.18-5. Will it solve the problem?
> > Confusing.
>
> don't know about the exact kernel package...
>
> maybe the report should be kept open to document forht release, that
> sun4c, armv? and i386 arre not supported anymore.
2.4.18 is not in sid. However, 2.4.24/2.6.0 in sid should both
emulate the needed instructions on 386.
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