Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > ia64 turns out to be confusing too; it's Itanium but the main 64-bit > architecture on PCs is now amd64. Intel calls this EM64T. The > debian-amd64 list gets occasional queries about trying to install the > ia64 distribution on amd64 machines. Can you complete the line of r

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:35:51AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I think we should at least consider to rename, since the current i386 seems > to cause a lot of confusion. When even DDs confuse the meaning how can we > expect the user to understand? Who is confused? > Most people know instanta

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Ken Bloom
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 06, Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>So I'll ask again. What would be the process for rename i386 to x86 or ia32? > > Complex enough that it will never happen, so please do not waste more > time over this. Thanks for the answer. Now everyone else can drop

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 06, Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'll ask again. What would be the process for rename i386 to x86 or ia32? Complex enough that it will never happen, so please do not waste more time over this. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Ken Bloom
Bastian Venthur wrote: > Ken Bloom wrote: > > >>Bastian Venthur wrote: >> >>>Nick Jacobs wrote: >>> >>> >>> In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a significant amount of work should be done to restore support for a processor that has not

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread W. Borgert
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:10:05PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I am a little bit confused. Does Via/C3 need strict 386-instructions > or does it play nicely with the current status, i.e. 486 instruction > set? A standard sarge install works perfectly on my brand-new VIA C3. Cheers, WB -- T

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Henning Glawe
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:10:05PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > Up until the change in GCC which effectively > > changed Debian compatibility to 486 processors and above, Debian > > supported the 386 processor. There was a lot of talking o

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Up until the change in GCC which effectively > changed Debian compatibility to 486 processors and above, Debian > supported the 386 processor. There was a lot of talking on the lists > at the time and it was agreed that this was a bad situation a

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:35:51AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > I think we should at least consider to rename, since the current i386 seems > to cause a lot of confusion. When even DDs confuse the meaning how can we > expect the user to understand? > > Most people know instantanously what

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Bastian Venthur
Ken Bloom wrote: > Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Nick Jacobs wrote: >> >> >>>In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>>You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a >>>significant amount of work should be done to restore >>>support for a processor that has not been manufactured >>>for 10 years? While s

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-05 Thread Ken Bloom
Bastian Venthur wrote: > Nick Jacobs wrote: > > >>In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a >>significant amount of work should be done to restore >>support for a processor that has not been manufactured >>for 10 years? While slightly degrading performance

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Yavor Doganov
At Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:11:56 -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > I think i386 debian arch is not suitable anymore for real-i386 machines > (self-experience), I mean, it's not suitable even for a Pentium 133 with > 32 Mb RAM. Ok, I know it works, but it's a waste of memory and CPU > cycles to run a full

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:38:51AM -0800, Nick Jacobs said > In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a > significant amount of work should be done to restore > support for a processor that has not been manufactured > for 10 years? While slightly degrading pe

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2005-11-03 às 21:39 +0200, Yavor Doganov escreveu: > At Thu, 3 Nov 2005 02:38:51 -0800 (PST), Nick Jacobs wrote: > > You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a significant amount of > > work should be done to restore support for a processor that has not > > been manufactured for 10 years

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 03 novembre 2005 à 02:38 -0800, Nick Jacobs a écrit : > In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a > significant amount of work should be done to restore > support for a processor that has not been manufactured > for 10 years? While slightly degradin

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Yavor Doganov
At Thu, 3 Nov 2005 02:38:51 -0800 (PST), Nick Jacobs wrote: > > You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a significant amount of > work should be done to restore support for a processor that has not > been manufactured for 10 years? While slightly degrading performance > for the 99.9% of x8

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Bastian Venthur wrote: > Maybe renaming Debians "i386" into something more accurate like "x86" or > even "IA32" (in consistency with IA64) would suppress discussions like > this in the future? Good idea :-) -- ksig --random| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Bastian Venthur
Nick Jacobs wrote: > In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a > significant amount of work should be done to restore > support for a processor that has not been manufactured > for 10 years? While slightly degrading performance for > the 99.9% of x86 us

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Nick Jacobs
In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a significant amount of work should be done to restore support for a processor that has not been manufactured for 10 years? While slightly degrading performance for the 99.9% of x86 users who have Pentium/Athlon/or bet

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch

2005-10-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> * Nathanael Nerode: > > > In gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.0, these functions have been replaced with out-of-line > > functions, implemented in libstdc++. > > Do these out-of-line functions avoid the LOCK prefix overhead on > non-SMP systems or, at least, non-threaded programs (for example, > using some

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch

2005-10-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Nathanael Nerode: > In gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.0, these functions have been replaced with out-of-line > functions, implemented in libstdc++. Do these out-of-line functions avoid the LOCK prefix overhead on non-SMP systems or, at least, non-threaded programs (for example, using some dynamic linker ma

real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch

2005-10-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I sent a message about this earlier, but it seems to have gotten lost. > On Saturday 08 October 2005 22:38, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Disgustingly, I worked out that we could have revived real i386 support > > for etch thanks to changes in gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.0 which nobody bothered > > to advertis

real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-10-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frans Pop wrote: > Do you mean that the security-flawed kernel patch would not have been > needed? Yes. For those interested, the full story is as follows. gcc-3.3 contained inline functions in the C++ header atomicity.h -- included by nearly every C++ program, and thus part of the binary inte