From 0bae203bb987f5399a1bf746d590a2d8f1ed1035 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:47:06 +0000 Subject: Change i386 minimum processor from 486 to 586, and also exclude Quark We accidentally stopped supporting 486 processors in squeeze. Update the documentation rather than fixing this, as it's clear that hardly anyone cares. (See #766105.) We also don't and won't support the Intel Quark, although it is basically Pentium-compatible due to serious errata with no reasonable workaround. Document this exception. --- en/hardware/supported/i386.xml | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'en/hardware/supported/i386.xml') diff --git a/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml b/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml index f5eb2cbb6..eefaceb55 100644 --- a/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml +++ b/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml @@ -21,12 +21,14 @@ processors like the Athlon XP and Intel P4 Xeon. -However, &debian; GNU/Linux &releasename; will not 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;. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286 -or earlier chips in the series.) All i486 and later processors are still -supported. +However, &debian; GNU/Linux &releasename; will +not 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 +not supported, due to hardware errata. -- cgit v1.2.3