> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:38:49PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Mike Larkin <[email protected]> 
> > > wrote:
> > >> i386 is next, but that requires a PAE paging model and compatible CPU.
> > >> I've got the PAE mode booting but it's not ready for prime time yet.
> > 
> > Hmm, once PAE is working well, maybe we can kill off non-PAE i386
> > support and reduce the set of non-W^X systems we monitor.  There's
> > some horrid code in ld.so that should be running in the fields behind
> > the barn...
> 
> That means dropping support for all Geode based soekris/alix machines,
> VIA C3 and at least some Pentium M machines among others.  Which is going
> to upset more than a few people...

Maybe Philip's barn is full of replacement machines!

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