Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 20:43 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: >> Ben Hutchings wrote... >> >> > We propose to drop support for i386 processors older than 686-class in >> > the current release cycle. This would include folding libc6-i686 into >> > libc6, changing the default target for gcc, and changing the 586 kernel >> > flavour to 686 (non-PAE). >> >> Could please provide information that helps to identify systems >> affected by this? Probably that is absence of certain flags in >> /proc/cpuinfo. FWIW, I suspect none of my remaining i386 installations >> will have issues from that switch but I'd like to know in advance. > > So far as I know the required feature flags are: fpu tsc cx8 cmov;
For those wanting to check their systems, this may help: sed -ne '/^flags /{s/\b\(fpu\|tsc\|cx8\|cmov\)\b/%/g;s/[^%]*//g;s/%%%%/i686 SUPPORTED/p}' /proc/cpuinfo which will output 'i686 SUPPORTED' only when those four flags are set (assuming that '%' never normally appears in the flags line). Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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