If you want I can bring a small form factor early x86 to Fosdem. Industrial, rugged little things with x86 chipset was rather popular for a while, and you can still order them new. The ones I have aren't i486 but a 586 (cyrix, I think).
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > > Am 28.12.2017 um 20:07 schrieb tedheadster: >> >> I am doing regression testing on old hardware. systemd-233 just >> generated the following error on startup: >> >> I believe it is getting an illegal instruction trap on this first >> generation 486 because it is calling "cpuid" in detect_vm_cpuid() >> without first checking if the hardware supports it; it doesn't in this >> case. >> >> The gcc compiler provides a workaround in the cpuid.h header file. You >> can call __get_cpuid_max() first and check the return value > 0. >> >> >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14266772/how-do-i-call-cpuid-in-linux#14266932 >> >> The Linux kernel still supports the 486 so we have to code around this >> case, even if it is ancient hardware > > > don't get me wrong - i am for 15 years now in the IT and my first PC in 1999 > was a i686 > > i don't see how a brand new systemd and a mordern userland is supposed to > run on 20 years or older hardware where nearly eveyr distribution these days > is i586 or i686 only or starts to drop 32bit at all > > if you have that old hardware normally you don't use leading edge software > on it and as a user (not systemd developer) i would love to see erevry > single line of code for 20 years old hardware is removed to make it cleaner > and in doubt faster on recent systems > > _______________________________________________ > systemd-devel mailing list > systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- 8362 CB14 98AD 11EF CEB6 FA81 FCC3 7674 449E 3CFC _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
