[Please CC me; not subscribed to -devel.] Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 15:34 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > We propose to drop support for i386 processors older than 686-class in > > > the current release cycle. This would include folding libc6-i686 into > > > libc6, changing the default target for gcc, and changing the 586 kernel > > > flavour to 686 (non-PAE). > > > > > > Since the 686-class, introduced with the Pentium Pro, is now almost 20 > > > years old, we believe there are few Debian systems still running that > > > have 586-class or hybrid processors. The only such processors > > > apparently still available for sale are the DM&P Vortex86 family, Intel > > > Quark and Xeon Phi, of which we currently only support the Vortex86. > > > > Debian i386 currently works just fine on Quark processors; > [...] > > So far as I know, all current Quark processors have errata that make > them unstable, not to mention totally insecure, when running ordinary > i386 binaries.
News to me. Link please? Because I don't know what they'd run if *not* ordinary x86 binaries, and everyone I know targeting them builds ordinary x86 binaries. :) - Josh Triplett
