On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 00:14 +0100, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > On 14/02/2011 13:11, Bastian Blank wrote: > >> Are there any changes we could/should make to the 486 flavour that would > >> make it perform better on 686-class processors? Should we consider also > >> dropping 486 support and making it a 586 flavour with corresponding > >> optimisations? > > > > The 486 flavour have only 8% of the usage of the 686 and steadily > > dropping. Which CPU types would be affected? > > Yes, but if you decide to drop the 686-non-pae flavour, you should > expect 486 raising. For example my notebook use a Pentium M Dothan > without pae support. :-( Yes, that's what we expect. > But please, don't raise too much the system request of the basic 486 > kernel: Debian's kernel is one of the few that i can run on very old > cpus. For example i've many K6-2 cpu that cannot run many live-CDs > because they need cmov support. Debian-live works good. > Switching from 486 to 586 i see the risk to cut out old hardware that is > still able to use Debian. K6-2 is 586-class, so no problem for you. And of course some old PC hardware would no longer be usable - just like the Alpha and PA-RISC systems we dropped support for in squeeze. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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