On Sun 28 Apr 2019 at 19:49:18 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Björn Persson (2019-04-28 18:43:48) > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > So my question is: Is the Geode LX among the dropped processors, or is > > the hang a bug that should be fixed? > > The officially supported CPUs - and how to check if yours is covered: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.da.html#i386-is-now-almost-i686 > > Some background on why the cut is there exactly: > https://lists.debian.org/20161017131747.wbvvhjemegs43...@bunk.spdns.de
And also here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/11/msg00565.html If it helps, 'cat /proc/cpuinfo" for my running Fujitsu Siemens A250 is: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 5 model : 10 model name : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 498.046 cache size : 128 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fdiv_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de pse tsc msr cx8 sep pge cmov clflush mmx mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow 3dnowprefetch vmmcall bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 996.09 clflush size : 32 cache_alignment : 32 address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual power management: brian@futro:~$ uname -a Linux futro 4.9.0-7-686 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u1 (2018-08-03) i586 GNU/Linux I have seen a reference to its being a Geode LX800. Sorry, I am not rebooting to look at what the bios says as I do not want to interupt the services it is operating. -- Brian.
