Re: linux-image for i586
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Sthu Deus wrote:
> Thank You for Your time and answer, Brad:
>
>> Probably because, like the AMD (32 bit) builds, there was
>> insufficient benefit to warrant all the extra work (to say nothing
>> of storage space) to do it.
>
> Then. may You know why they have chosen i486 instead of i386?
This has been decided for the release of "sarge" (around 2005). From
lenny's installation guide [1]:
> However, Debian GNU/Linux lenny will not run on 386 or earlier
> processors. Despite the architecture name "i386", support for actual
> 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge (r3.1)
> release of Debian. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286
> or earlier chips in the series.) All i486 and later processors are
> still supported
and
> We have long tried to avoid this, but in the end it was necessary due
> a unfortunate series of issues with the compiler and the kernel,
> starting with an bug in the C++ ABI provided by GCC. You should still
> be able to run Debian GNU/Linux on actual 80386 processors if you
> compile your own kernel and compile all packages from source, but
> that is beyond the scope of this manual.
[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en#id2756691
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Johannes
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the
humble reasoning of a single individual.
- - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
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