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Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor
- pksadiq 11y agoIntel Pentium not supported in Debian stretch??? That's really bad. There are people still using that, especially in academic environment.
- unlinker 11y agoI guess they mean the original Pentium. Is that still actively used?
- pksadiq 11y agoHm... I thought it was about the Intel Pentium series.
- hbogert 11y agoIt is, the original one, the Pentium (translates roughly to '5') which actually gave a symbolical name to the _5_86 The name Pentium is now used for relatively cheap CPUs, these CPUs will remain functional, as they are not 586. The following wiki page calls it "P5"-based CPUs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_microprocessors#P6_based_Pentiums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_micropro...
- creshal 11y agoThe first 686 CPU was the Pentium Pro, which despite the name was a full redesign. The earliest consumer variant would be the Pentium II.
- wglb 11y agoLooks like it is OpenBSD or FreeBSD for my old 200 mhz Pentium/MMX gateway box with 32 megs of memory. Which refuses to die.
- creshal 11y agoThe most recent CPU affected by this is probably the AMD Geode, which has had a stupidly long production run (and I think is still in production) for billions of embedded devices and doesn't quite implement the full 686 instruction set.
- yaantc 11y agoI played with Geode and Debian some time ago (over one year, which means in the hazy past as far as I'm concerned --- not good with dates ;), and they were not supported already. I forgot the details and when it happened exactly, but they're not full 586 as expected by Debian i386 builds. Some needed instruction is missing.