Re: Preparing 2.6.15 - i386: drop M386 support in favour of M486?
Frederik Schueler <fs@lowpingbastards.de> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> we should start making 2.6.15-rc ready in experimental, so we can again
> upload the final version the same day upstream releases, and maybe do it
> in time through the NEW queue this time.
>
> But before that, every arch maintainer needs to check their configs and
> maybe rediff some (now commented out) patches.
>
> For the start, the orig tarball for 2.6.15-rc4 is at
>
> http://people.debian.org/~fs/linux-2.6_2.6.14+2.6.15-rc4.orig.tar.gz
>
>
> I have the amd64 configs in sync, and would like to upload a first try
> to experimental.
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot upload amd64 binaries to the archive yet, so I
> worked on the i386 parts too. This leads us to the following problem:
>
> The 386 flavour used to have CONFIG_M386 set, wich currently fails to
> build due to missing CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG (which is !M386), which in turn
> is needed for example by ACPI.
>
> Currently the 386 flavour breaks after some warnings about this.
>
> I wonder why we don't drop M386 support at all, and switch to M486?
> The alternative would be investigate the changes and fix all concerned
> code, which I sincerely don't have the time to do.
>
> Current post-sarge kernels won't work on "real i386" systems anyway,
> since we dropped x86-i486_emu.dpatch.
M486 sounds reasonable to me.
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Horms
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