On Fri, 6 May 2016 00:17:31 +0200 Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 05:15:56PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Debian is dropping suppoort for i586. It seems to mean tht the > > i386 platform will no longer run on 586 processors, as gcc starts > > to generate instructions that are incalid there. > [...] > > I don't know if we need to watch out for anything relating this in > > Devuan. Do we plan to support and continue to support i586? > > Reverting this in a derivative is possible, although it lands you > pretty much exactly in Raspbian's position. > > You'd need to: > * reconfigure and rebuild kernel for -585 flavour > * undo the not-yet-done merging of libc6-i686 > * (no source changes) rebuild every package! > * watch out for regressions > > The last point can be mostly automated -- you can use the attached > script to determine the CPU needed to execute a given binary. > > The result will be one-way compatibility: your packages will run on > any Debian-compatible system but importing from Debian or any other > external repository will require a rebuild. > > Not worth the effort, I'd say. Jessie still has four years of > security support (I don't think Devuan has the manpower to provide > security support for 40k+ packages alone after Debian ends it), and > if you'd _still_ run that museal machine at that time, you can > reconsider. We need to pick our battles. I bought a Pentium II, a 686, in 1998. That's a little over 18 years ago. The last 32 bit Pentium, the Pentium 4, stopped selling in August 2008: That's 8 years ago. And since 2004, you could, and many people did, buy 64 bit machines. A 586 or 32 bit machine is doubtlessly so old that getting one replacement part would cost quite enough to just dumpsterize the computer (unless one has a basement full of cannibalizable computers). How many peoples' lives would we improve by taking over the i586 version? SteveT Steve Litt April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
