On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 06:48:26AM +0000, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 09:31:03PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > [Please CC me; not subscribed to -devel.] > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > 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. :) > > I don't have a quark, but apparently LOCK prefix is broken: > > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-05/msg00144.html > > and the related debian bug with link to actual errata: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738575
Gah. Thanks for the info; that's all kinds of awful. I find myself rather astounded that stock Debian worked for me, then. And I retract the objection; go ahead and remove i586 support. - Josh Triplett
