On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:55:12AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > There is currently a long thread on the develop list about the possibility of > dropping support from the i386 architecture for at best just 386 processors > and at worst everything except 686 processors. > > This is because of various things like the new thread support and some > locking issues. > > The discussion seems to be completely ignoring embedded processors, > many of which are 486 and 586 rather than the more modern chips found > in desktop and laptop machines. > > There seems to be no-one but me putting up the arguement that the > embedded market needs support for these older chips. > > Is anyone else worried about this change in policy by Debian?
I found generally embedded units requires ad�hoc installations, I do not find that proposal a so grave issue. I'm more concerned about cross-development tools availability and other building blocks. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
