On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 03:49:32PM +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote:
> Now that i386 platform requires i586 CPU, I guess we should mention
> it in current.html (the page i386.html should be updated accordingly
> at 6.8 release)
> 
> Index: current.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/reposync/www/faq/current.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.1048
> diff -u -p -r1.1048 current.html
> --- current.html      11 Jul 2020 16:53:47 -0000      1.1048
> +++ current.html      7 Aug 2020 13:43:25 -0000
> @@ -57,6 +57,16 @@ use a snapshot to recover.
>  Most of these changes will have to be performed as root.
>  
>  
> +<h3 id="r20200803">2020/08/03 - i386 requirements raised to i586</h3>
> +
> +Due to llvm upgrade to version 10 in base system, the minimal
> +CPU instruction sets requirements for i386 architecture has been
> +raised from i386 to i586.

I can't speak as to whether or not this is warrented or not, but this
part is at least wrong. i386 CPU support was dropped years ago in the
kernel, only 486-class processors and higher (with a math-coprocessor)
are supported.

The real hint here might be that cpu0: must contain "CX8" to reliably
work from now on, which indicates support for the CMPXCHG8 instruction.

> +In concrete terms for Intel and AMD CPUs, Intel Pentium and AMD K5
> +are now the minimal requirements for i386 architecture.
> +
> +
>  <h3 id="r20200529">2020/05/29 - [ports] net/isc-bind example files 
> dropped</h3>
>  
>  Outdated example configuration (including some "standard" zone files and
> 
> 

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