On Sat, 20 May 2023 18:14:52 +0200, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 09:15:00AM +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > > How easily could we add 64-bit system detection to the i386 installer, > > and a message saying something like: > > > > "You're installing the i386 architecture on a 64-bit system. While this > > will work, this is the last release it'll be supported. We recommend > > installing the 64-bit amd64 architecture instead. > > This is not a valid use for i386. Running the i386 kernel on _modern_ > hardware is insecure, slower (esp. if you have a non-tiny amount of > memory), etc. We should put a big fat warnings for _that_.
And future modern hardware is likely to make it impossible: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envisioning-future-simplified-architecture.html which means it will become increasingly difficult to reliably test i386 kernels on sensible hardware; not on a timescale relevant for Trixie, but still, worth bearing in mind. VMs and/or emulation will end up being the only possible ways of running legacy software on modern hardware. Regards, Stephen
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