On 08/20/2024 05:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 08/20/2024 04:30 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
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There will be non i386 installer medium for Trixie when released though
i386 will be retained as a release architecture.
Can you point me to the details. I have two i386 I wish to use as long
as possible.
I don't know if this is what Andrew was referring to, but I just found:
Debian 13 will continue to support 32 bit x86 processors, however
the lower limit is now i686.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history
which refers to
"Debian Trixie release notes"
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.en.html#i386-is-i686
which states (in part)
5.1.13. Baseline for 32-bit PC is now i686¶
Debian's support for 32-bit PC (known as the Debian architecture i386)
now no longer covers any i586 processor. The new minimum requirement
is i686. This means that the i386 architecture now requires the "long NOP"
(NOPL)
instruction, while bullseye still supported some i586 processors without
that instruction (e.g. the "AMD Geode").
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