On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 10:02 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > Since the 686-class, introduced with the Pentium Pro, is now almost 20 > years old, we believe there are few Debian systems still running that > have 586-class or hybrid processors. The only such processors > apparently still available for sale are the DM&P Vortex86 family, > Intel > Quark and Xeon Phi, of which we currently only support the Vortex86. > > I don’t know whether we currently have the ability to run standard x86 > binaries on the Xeon Phi coprocessors, but it definitely sounds like > something we should try to obtain, not to prevent. Otherwise we’ll end > up with yet another half-assed, unmaintainable way to build specific > binaries for HPC.
Contrary to what I thought, the Xeon Phi processors are actually 64-bit . However I think they're a little too weird to support with the same binaries - no CMOV, no MMX and no SSE. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates
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