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| author | Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> | 2015-12-24 22:08:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> | 2015-12-24 22:08:20 +0000 |
| commit | 795d0fcbfc574a2c78dfe779c371e4e83cec19cc (patch) | |
| tree | ea1852269fccc60641b0b8c9bbd79c9248806169 /en/hardware/supported | |
| parent | 0153c31feb850648946d9666cae25ca42a403a52 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-795d0fcbfc574a2c78dfe779c371e4e83cec19cc.zip | |
Change i386 minimum processor from 586 to 686
We will stop supporting 586 processors in stretch, so update the i386
hardware requirements accordingly.
Remove the note about the 586 flavour not supporting SMP. Both the
remaining i386 kernel flavours do support it.
As no 686 systems support VLB nor use ISA or EISA as the main bus,
remove those from the list of busses.
Change the preseed example to use the 686 kernel flavour.
Diffstat (limited to 'en/hardware/supported')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/hardware/supported/i386.xml | 21 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml b/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml index eefaceb55..c36971be3 100644 --- a/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml +++ b/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml @@ -14,21 +14,15 @@ This section merely outlines the basics. <sect3><title>CPU</title> <para> -Nearly all x86-based (IA-32) processors still in use in personal computers -are supported, including all varieties of Intel's "Pentium" series. -This also includes 32-bit AMD and VIA (former Cyrix) processors, and -processors like the Athlon XP and Intel P4 Xeon. +Nearly all x86-based (IA-32) processors still in use in personal +computers are supported. This also includes 32-bit AMD and VIA +(former Cyrix) processors, and processors like the Athlon XP and Intel +P4 Xeon. </para><para> However, &debian; GNU/Linux &releasename; will -<emphasis>not</emphasis> run on 486 or earlier processors. Despite -the architecture name "i386", support for actual 80386 and 80486 -processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge (r3.1) and -Squeeze (r6.0) releases of &debian;, respectively. The Intel Pentium -and clones, including those without an FPU (Floating-Point Unit or -math coprocessor), are supported. The Intel Quark is -<emphasis>not</emphasis> supported, due to hardware errata. +<emphasis>not</emphasis> run on 586 (Pentium) or earlier processors. </para> <note><para> @@ -45,9 +39,8 @@ of the installer for the (32-bit) i386 architecture. The system bus is the part of the motherboard which allows the CPU to communicate with peripherals such as storage devices. Your computer -must use the ISA, EISA, PCI, PCIe, PCI-X, or VESA Local Bus (VLB, sometimes called the VL -bus). Essentially all personal computers sold in recent years use one -of these. +must use the PCI, PCIe, or PCI-X bus. Essentially all personal computers +sold in recent years use one of these. </para> </sect3> |