[ This discussion should not continue here on debian-release, feel free to redirect to debian-devel ] Quoting Martin Schulze: > Andrew Shugg wrote: > > Goswin von Brederlow said: > > > Is anyone still using real i386 cpus? > > > > I decommissioned my last one a few months ago. (12 years old...) Maybe > > the best thing to do would be to announce via debian-announce, DWN etc > > that i386 will likely be dropped for sarge and only i486 and higher CPUs > > supported? Then have a poll to see if anyone still needs i386? > > FWIW: I still operate 1.5 of them. > Losing Debian-current on it would be a pity.
I'm also running i386 "boxes", in fact embedded PC ... but Debian works on it as long as you're using a kernel wich enables i486 emulation. As those "boxes" always have big constraints on RAM, you're already forced to have a custom kernel so it's not a big deal to require this option to be set. Furthermore according to the bug log (#241497) the latest 2.4 kernels that Debian ships have this option enabled. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://www.ouaza.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com Earn money with free software: http://www.geniustrader.org
