On Sun May 24 19:41, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > I would like to raise the minimum CPU requirement for the shipped Linux > > kernels in the i386 port to i686 (with cmov). For now I will not propose > > a change of the default machine type setting used by the compiler. > > Raise it is non-sense. I know of many people that actively use > machines that will lose support in this case.
I concur, I think you are dropping too many CPUs that are actively used. It wasn't that long ago that we dropped 386 support, and non-686 CPUs have been made (relatively) much more recently (due to things like the Via and other cheap alternatives to Intel/AMD). > I'm quite curious to know what is the reason for that? > > I think we could possible change the default kernel available on full > CD set (if we provide an alternative image for usage by those old > machines) and I'd also support it not being available for all > installer flavours but I do think we can't just drop support for those > machines. Can't d-i autodetect CPU features and install a -686 kernel where appropriate? Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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