On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > As another data point, I have a customer which uses Debian on Vortex86 > based CPU and they are actually selling small embedded computers based on > this CPU to various manufacturers (for production monitoring purpose). > > So there are current use cases where 586 support is still required. That > said I'm not opposing the change as we have 5 years of jessie lifetime > left and in this kind of usage, it's really stable that matters. And in 5 > years, DM&P (the vortex cpu manufacturer) will probably have upgraded > its CPU.
I wonder if contacting DM&P about that upgrade is feasible and a good idea. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
