I agree. Speaking just for myself, I have at least one other 32-bit system that 
currently runs Debian 11, and I'd prefer to not just upgrade it and hope it 
works as a means of testing whether or not it's supported. If the distinction 
between "supported" and "not supported" is going to come down to specific 
assembler-level instructions, it would seem that that wont tell most people 
anything. 

A list of processors doesn't have to be exhaustive. It only has to list 
whatever has been reported as known to work or not. Feedback from the 
popularity-contest package might be useful here. 

This is essentially the way that flashrom does it. They tell you what they know 
for sure, and what's a guess, and what they don't know. After that, they've 
done the best they can do and you have to make a good decision. 

--J

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From: RL <richard.lewis.deb...@googlemail.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2023 04:45
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> writes:

Is there an page that tabulates release name and detailed hardware 
baseline - if i want to know "what release can run on a computer with X 
processor", is is there somewwhere i go to research that? it would be 
useful for release-notes to link to such a page 

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