RE: Dropping 386 support
what about changing the 486 emulation kernel patch so that it completely
disables itself on non 386 processors
this way it would only have security issues on pure 386 which wouldn't be
supported at all otherwise
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Schulze [mailto:joey@infodrom.org]
> Sent: 04 October 2004 14:33
> To: Peter Green
> Cc: Adeodato Simó; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org;
> debian-release@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Dropping 386 support
>
>
> peter green wrote:
> > calling stuff i386 when it will not run natively on a 386 seems
> like asking
> > for confustion to me
>
> True, but we're way to close to a release to fix *that*. And I'm not
> sure that we could easily fix binary-i386 at all..
>
> > why and when was this instruction emulation needed in the first
> place (that
> > is why and when was the userland changed to need it)
>
>
> Looking in that archive, this was first discussed in April 2003:
>
>
> <http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/17/>
>
> Debian to drop Support for i386? Jochen Friedrich [30]noted that
> due to GCC 3.2 the new libstdc++5 library requires an 80486
> processor or higher, the old 80386 on which Linux was started, is
> no longer supported. Therefore Matthias Klose [31]wondered whether
> Debian should further support the i386 target.
>
> 30. http://bugs.debian.org/185662
> 31. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg01895.html
>
> <http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/18/>
>
> Dropping Support for i386? Nathanael Nerode [17]investigated the
> i386 problem and discovered that to maintain binary compatibility
> with C++ packages from other distributions, Debian needs to use the
> i486 version of atomicity.h supplied by GCC. Dagfinn Ilmari
> Mannsåker [18]wrote a small [19]script that compares the speed of
> OpenSSL code for i386 versus i486 on a P-III Mobile.
>
> 17. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg02112.html
> 18. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg02134.html
> 19. http://ilmari.org/sslcmp
>
> Another URL that was inspired by and mentioned on the debian-release
> mailing list: <http://people.debian.org/~joey/pr/3.1/i386.html>
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joey
>
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