My formal programming background is limited to an introductory course
using CORC/CUPL (Dartmouth's BASIC being years in future). My last
production code used 8080 assembler - my employer hadn't yet switched
completely to 8085. I've owned a variety of machines - early a PET and a
Kim. Still have a Kaypro 10 in a back room - haven't booted in decades.
On 08/28/2024 09:07 PM, Michael Stone wrote:
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 09:10:21AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 08/27/2024 08:14 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm looking for for where *Debian* documents which processors support
current Debian release.
I have three machines whose processors are 64 bit capable.
Processors identified by running lscpu:
Machine 1:
Architecture: i686
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 540 @ 2.53GHz
Machine 2:
Architecture: x86_64
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz
Machine 3:
Architecture: i686
Model name: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz
Will the OS linked to by https://www.debian.org/ run on all three?
[For historical reasons I currently run 32 bit on all.]
[snip static ;]
All of these CPUs should run Debian amd64.
Weak point there is the word "should". Based on *your* background.
I was looking for documentation that *does not* assume the reader has
some unspecified expertise.
Did the documentation tell you to run lscpu and do something with the
architecture field?
No *GRIN* But is one of reasons I asked.
Over a half century of real real world experience suggested lscpu would
be a suitable reporting tool.
It seems to me that you're doing your own thing in
your own way and expecting us to accomodate that, which seems at least
somewhat unreasonable. For background: the lscpu architecture field
doesn't tell you what kind of cpu you're running. Instead, it tells you
the architecture of the system on which lscpu is running, and more
specifically, what architecture the *kernel* is built for.
DEBIAN documentation appears to disagree with you.The manpage[1] states:
lscpu - display information about the CPU architecture
Only suggestion that it may not be physical reality is when it states:
In virtualized environments, the CPU architecture information displayed
reflects the configuration of the guest operating system which is
typically different from the physical (host) system.
FWIW, there isn't any reasonably general x86 OS that maintains a
comprehensive list of every possible computer model it will run on.
That was *NOT* the question.
I ask "What doth DEBIAN require of my CPU?"
[1] https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/util-linux/lscpu.1.en.html
