On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 04:04:12PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > su 4.1.2026 klo 15.36 Chris Hofstaedtler ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > > You are mistaken. See the release notes explaining the new > > requirements for the "i386 partial architecture": > > https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.en.html#reduced-support-for-i386 > > Something with SSE2, with a strong assumption of running on amd64 > hardware. Fair enough. That explains why everything still works out of > the box on my old Core laptop. > > One point in that section doesn't make sense: The suggestion to > reinstall the host as amd64. For obvious reasons, this won't work on > actual 32-bit hardware.
I guess the section could be clearer. What it tries to say is: the baseline is amd64. Hardware not fulfilling this is unsupported and running Debian in any form on it is unsupported. As such there is no "upgrade advice" for non-amd64 hardware. Bests, Chris
