Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 12:08 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Andreas Barth wrote: > > > Specific issues: > > > - for i386, there is still sold new hardware with 32bit-only. Are > > > there open issues for i386 (apart from the 32bit-generic ones)? > > > Discussion that we need to get rid of it one day should be started. > > > > Brand-new 32-bit-only x86 hardware is currently being sold, and will > > continue to be in the future. In particular, the Quark embedded > > platform is a 32-bit x86, roughly i586-class, with no 64-bit support, > > and no MMX or SSE, though it has a few modern instruction set extensions > > (notably for security). So, i386 needs to stick around for the > > foreseeable future. > [...] > > The last I heard, all Quark chips have serious bugs that prevent Debian > i386 from running on them.
News to me; I've successfully booted Debian on the Quark I have. Do you have any additional information about this? As far as I know, the primary issue there is that Quark doesn't have some MSRs that i586/i686 systems have, so code that assumes those on certain classes and doesn't check for them will break. But as far as I know those issues have been patched upstream. - Josh Triplett
