On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 02:41:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 19:17:15 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > wrote: > > On Saturday 07 May 2016 13:23:30 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. > > > > I guess the answer is "no", but just to be sure: does this means that i386 > > supported processors need to implement SSE2? > > I suppose this is related to unconditional SSE2 requirement in new Qt > libraries, (bugs #792594, #794739), for which I thought I had clarified > the conditions and for which I've provided patches already, but also for > which I'm not willing to sign the CLA. > > This means that Qt and any application using those specific bits, will > not run at all (silently) in Stretch on any AMD-based i386 CPUs, nor on > older Intel ones, which I'd assume is a pretty big percent of the i386 > park. > Why aren't those bugs RC?
Cheers, Julien
