Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL

2023-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
Greg Wooledge [2023-05-20 11:23:27] wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 10:36:21AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I was still able to use Debian on a (headless, armhf) 512MB machine >> without too much suffering two years ago, but I suspect that less than >> that might be impractical. > Depends on wh

Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL

2023-05-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 10:36:21AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I was still able to use Debian on a (headless, armhf) 512MB machine > without too much suffering two years ago, but I suspect that less than > that might be impractical. Depends on what you plan to use it for. That amount of RAM wo

Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL

2023-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Recently, Intel has begun proposing some security improvements for > i686 that make use of the NOPL instruction -- and that, I think, could > cause support for the Geode LX to fall away from many Linux operating > systems because there's a fair and very reasonable argument that > adding security

Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL

2023-05-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 20 May 2023 09:07:57 +0100 James Addison wrote: > Hi folks, > > I don't think that I should file this as a Debian bugreport, because > it's not a problem that I've experienced with Debian. > > And I don't think that it's appropriate to write to Debian developers > directly about it yet,

i386: Geode LX and NOPL

2023-05-20 Thread James Addison
Hi folks, I don't think that I should file this as a Debian bugreport, because it's not a problem that I've experienced with Debian. And I don't think that it's appropriate to write to Debian developers directly about it yet, because I haven't been able to test the results of what I'm curious abo