Björn Persson <bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote: > I have a small server with a Geode processor – Geode LX 500 MHz > according to the BIOS boot screen – which I needed to upgrade from > Debian 8 to Debian 9. I know that Debian has dropped support for i586, > but I haven't been able to find a definitive answer to how that affects > Geodes. What little I could find on the Web seemed to suggest that > Geodes are mostly like i686, which is supposed to still be supported by > Debian 9, so I decided to try it, took a backup, and took the plunge.
The Geode LX is missing some CPU instructions to be fully i686-compatible. > It turns out that the kernel from Debian 9 won't boot. Both Linux > 4.9.0-8-686 and 4.9.0-9-686 appear to hang early in the boot process. > Everything else seems to work, so right now I'm running Debian 9 on > Linux 3.16.0-8-586 from Debian 8. This works for now, but it's > obviously not a long-term solution. Even if the Kernel boots, you might find other software which will SIGILL if you try to run it on a Geode LX, because if the missing instructions. > So my question is: Is the Geode LX among the dropped processors, or is > the hang a bug that should be fixed? Geode LX is among the dropped processors, you need at least a Geode NX for Debian Stretch. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
