On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:16:34PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: > due to upstream changes in 2.6.15-rc series, the current i386 386 flavour > does not build anymore with plain old M386 support activated. > > Deactivating those drivers - which need those instructions not available on > M386 - is not an option, because for example ACPI and DRI do need CMPXCHG: > deactivating those would render the 386 flavour useless on most non-M386 > hardware, and as a generic flavour for non-k7 and non-686 CPUs.
Is the CMPXCHG required to detect that the system doesn't have ACPI and DRI? If not it ought to still be possible to use a kernel on i386 and have support for those features, unless the compiler won't allow that. > We dropped the security-buggy x86-i486_emu patch providing software > emulation of CMPXCHG and other instructions with the 2.6.12-1 release of > linux-2.6, so M386 support was broken anyway in all post-sarge kernel > images. Yeah I remember seeing things about libc requireing it and such. Personally I don't have anything lower than a 486, so what do I care, other than I love keeping old hardware useful. :) > For a related discussion before Sarge got released, see [1]. > > To document this change, the 386 flavour has been renamed to 486 in > SVN, and the config has been adapted to M486. > 2.6.15-rc5 will be uploaded to experimental soon, containing this change. > > when 2.6.15 hits unstable, all concerned packages from the debian-installer > should cope with this change apropriately. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]