Bug#766105: 486 kernel doesn't boot on net4501; CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE helps

[Ben Harris <bjh21@bjh21.me.uk>]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> > Will custom kernels running on 486es still be supported, or is Debian
> > intending to desupport the 486 in userland as well?
>
> They might still work.  gcc is now configured to target 586 and above,
> but I don't think there are any 586-only instructions that it will
> automatically generate.
>
> However, given that this fatal bug has not (so far as I know) been
> reported in the 5 years since it was introduced in unstable, I suspect
> you're one of a very few people still using Debian on a 486, and you may
> find many other things broken.

Actually, I've been running wheezy on an old kernel on another net4501 for 
some months now, and it makes a perfectly adequate DNS and DHCP server. 
It's possible that the rest of the archive is horribly broken, but the 
essential parts seem to work fine.

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Ben Harris