Debian's i386 Builds Now Require 686-Class CPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Debian's i386 Builds Now Require 686-Class CPUs

Those running any old VIA C3, AMD K5/K6, or original Intel Pentium CPUs, you'll be losing your Debian support past the current stable (Jessie) series...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-686-For-i386-CPUs

[discordian]

Add the Intel Quark (Year 2015) to that list.

I still pity the Intel rep that wanted to sell us on this and had to dodge any questions to repeat his PR-accepted lines word-by-word. x86 top-to-bottom ecosystem, right =)

[TumultuousUnicorn]

That's i686, but it's called i386. Both are 32-bit, why they don't name 32-bit packages i686?
On OpenSUSE, 32-bit packages are suffixed by i586, and on Arch Linux, i686. It's not confusing.

[uid313]

And for x86-64 its any CPU generation?

They should make a kernel compiled for Intel Skylake.

[TumultuousUnicorn]

And for x86-64 its any CPU generation?

Yes, it seems 64-bit on x86 architecture did not change. All CPUs with AMD64 or Intel 64 instruction is x86_64 compatible.

They should make a kernel compiled for Intel Skylake.

Maybe in Ubuntu PPA... There is a linux-ck-skylake kernel on Arch Linux unofficial repo.

[discordian]

And for x86-64 its any CPU generation?

So far, yes. Maybe this will change in 20 years or so =)

Seriously though, x86-64 is a much saner baseline than i586 or i686 (without SSE2) for that matter.

[carewolf]

Does that make MMX mandatory? Though I guess it might not matter, being deprecated already.

[KellyClowers]

You mean I will need to use a mircoarch that is newer than 1995? Outrageous! :-P

[carewolf]

So far, yes. Maybe this will change in 20 years or so =)

Seriously though, x86-64 is a much saner baseline than i586 or i686 (without SSE2) for that matter.

Well x64 equivelent x86 might make sense. That would be roughly i686+SSE2. It would also solve FP differences between x86 and x64 modes.

[DeepDayze]

Some Debian-based distros could still possibly spin kernels for the older hardware and it's just Debian's kernels affected by this change, so all is not lost.