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diff --git a/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml b/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml index 6e962659a..f5eb2cbb6 100644 --- a/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml +++ b/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml @@ -24,32 +24,9 @@ processors like the Athlon XP and Intel P4 Xeon. However, &debian; GNU/Linux &releasename; will <emphasis>not</emphasis> run on 386 or earlier processors. Despite the architecture name "i386", support for actual 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge -(r3.1) release of &debian;<footnote> - -<para> -We have long tried to avoid this, but in the end it was necessary due a -unfortunate series of issues with the compiler and the kernel, starting -with an bug in the C++ ABI provided by GCC. You should still be able to -run &debian; GNU/Linux on actual 80386 processors if you compile your own -kernel and compile all packages from source, but that is beyond the -scope of this manual. -</para> - -</footnote>. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286 or earlier -chips in the series.) All i486 and later processors are still -supported<footnote> - -<para> - -Many &debian; packages will actually run slightly faster on modern computers -as a positive side effect of dropping support for these old chips. The -i486, introduced in 1989, has three opcodes (bswap, cmpxchg, and xadd) -which the i386, introduced in 1986, did not have. Previously, these could not -be easily used by most &debian; packages; now they can. - -</para> - -</footnote>. +(r3.1) release of &debian;. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286 +or earlier chips in the series.) All i486 and later processors are still +supported. </para> <note><para> |