Gosh, that makes my eyes tear up a little. Bye bye Pentium. D.
On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 13:23 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Last year it was decided to increase the minimum CPU features for the > i386 architecture to 686-class in the stretch release cycle. This > means dropping support for 586-class and hybrid 586/686 > processors[1].(Support for 486-class processors was dropped, somewhat > accidentally, in squeeze.) > > This was implemented in the Linux kernel packages starting with Linux > 4.3, which was uploaded to unstable in December last year. > > In case you missed that change, gcc for i386 has recently been > changed > to target 686-class processors and is generating code that will crash > on other processors. Any such systems still running testing or > unstable will need to be switched to run stable (jessie). > > The older processors will continue to be supported in jessie until at > least 2018, and until 2020 if i386 is included in jessie LTS. > > [1] The following processors, supported in jessie, are now > unspported: > > * AMD K5, K6, K6-2 (aka K6 3D), K6-3 > * DM&P/SiS Vortex86, Vortex86SX > * Cyrix III, MediaGX, MediaGXm > * IDT Winchip C6, Winchip 2 > * Intel Pentium, Pentium with MMX > * Rise mP6 > * VIA C3 'Samuel 2', C3 'Ezra' > > Ben. >
