On Sat, 2015-10-03 at 22:06 +0100, Andrew Kanaber wrote: > Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > On 28 September 2015 at 22:44, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Data point: I recently heard of at least one person who will need to > > > buy new hardware as a result of this change. > > Which hopefully is (a) cheap and (b) pay-off via electricity bill due > > to improved power-efficiency ?! > > Not for the Via Eden ESP 533 (TDP 5W, not a 686 for lack of CMOV) I'm still > using in my TV box, and probably not in general since the non-686 processors > still in use are likely to be low-power embedded chips.
There are several Atom models with lower TDP than that. > Ben mentioned > Vortex86, and AMD Geode can also be problematic not supporting NOPL (and > returns CPUID family 5, i.e 586). The Linux kernel doesn't use it in any 32-bit configuration: https://git.kernel.org/linus/ba0593bf553c450a03dbc5f8c1f0ff58b778a0c8 gas was also changed to not generate long-NOPs when the target is the generic 'i686' rather than a specific core: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2010-08/msg00057.html So the Geode processors should remain supported. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
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