On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 02:36:23PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 08:18:37PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Unless it is not just the kernel but also glibc or something somehow not > > working on older hardware. > > It may well be that the newer hardware has machine instructions not > available on older hardware, and that the compilers that generate > packaged code use those machine instructions; in which case the new > packages would be quite incomatible with the old hardware.
glibc, and probably many individual programs as well; gcc defaults have been changed to produce i686 instructions so you'd need to rebuild world to get i586 or i486 back. The question remains, why? For driving that medical scanner/CNC machine you're much better off running software from that era instead of risking regressions. For any other use, you're in Amiga/etc land, and it's a matter of hobby rather than productively "using old 'still good' hardware". Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ in the beginning was the boot and root floppies and they were good. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- <willmore> on #linux-sunxi ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
