On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 08:55:24 +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Andres Salomon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The kernel team is considering dropping 386 support (the 80386 >> processor, not the i386 arch) from Debian. Currently, in order to >> support 386, we include a 486 emulation patch (the patch can be viewed >> from here: >> <http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/kernel/trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6..8-2.6.8/debian/patches/x86-i486_emu.dpatch>). [...] > > trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6..8-2.6.8/debian/patches/x86-i486_emu.dpatch: > unknown location > > HTTP Response Status > > 404 Not Found > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/org/svn.debian.org/viewcvs/lib/viewcvs.py", line 3191, in main > request.run_viewcvs() > File "/org/svn.debian.org/viewcvs/lib/viewcvs.py", line 308, in > run_viewcvs > % self.where, '404 Not Found') > ViewCVSException: 404 Not Found: > trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6..8-2.6.8/debian/patches/x86-i486_emu.dpatch: > unknown locatio > > Wrong path? Or is ViewCVS broken currently? > >
Whoops, too many dots in kernel-source-2.6.8-2.6.8. That should be: <http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/kernel/trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.8-2.6.8/debian/patches/x86-i486_emu.dpatch> > The bug report you've listed isn't quite helpful since the discusssion > ends with Herbert saying that everything seems to be ok and Arjan moving > on to lkml, but no link or whatsoever has been added. > > > It ends w/ Herbert saying he'll punt it onto the new kernel maintainers. The thread can be read here: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/205839>. People find various problems w/ the patch. Alan Cox proposes an interesting alternative (trapping SIGILLs and emulating the necessary instructions in userspace), but I haven't seen any implementations of it. >> Reasons for dropping 386 support are as follows: >> * d-i currently requires at least 20 megs of ram to install. My 386 >> had 4 megs of ram, which required using lowmem w/ potato's installer. I >> don't see standard d-i as being a viable option for installing debian >> on your 386 anytime soon. > > I guess the lowmem version won't help either? > > > I believe the 20meg version *is* the lowmem install target. The standard one requires something like 32 megs, last I heard.
