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- <sect2 arch="i386"><title>CPU, Main Boards, and Video Support</title>
-<para>
-
-Complete information concerning supported peripherals can be found at
-<ulink url="&url-hardware-howto;">Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO</ulink>.
-This section merely outlines the basics.
-
-</para>
-
- <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.
-
-</para><para>
-
-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>.
-
-</para>
-<note><para>
-
-If your system has a 64-bit processor from the AMD64 or Intel EM64T families,
-you will probably want to use the installer for the amd64 architecture instead
-of the installer for the (32-bit) i386 architecture.
-
-</para></note>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="bus"><title>I/O Bus</title>
-<para>
-
-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.
-
-</para>
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
-