Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758666AbZAOMgk (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:36:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759712AbZAOMgS (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:36:18 -0500 Received: from lug-owl.de ([195.71.106.12]:37431 "EHLO lug-owl.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759280AbZAOMgQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:36:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:36:14 +0100 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Kosina , Adam Osuchowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Is 386 processor still supported? Message-ID: <20090115123614.GR11087@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Kosina , Adam Osuchowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" References: <20090108120338.6b8b4567@zonk.pl> <1231424025.11687.447.camel@twins> <1231424833.11687.452.camel@twins> <20090108150448.2393aeb0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090108151046.GK18120@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="thbZYyT/l9NtheWI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.6.18-5-686 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net X-Echelon-Enable: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-TKUeV: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-message-flag: Please send plain text messages only. Do not send HTML emails. Thank you. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1721 Lines: 53 --thbZYyT/l9NtheWI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2009-01-13 01:06:55 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki = wrote: >=20 > Myself, I could not resist trying an APIC-based 486 SMP box and possibly= =20 > fixing issues if I found one and it was MPS-compliant, but nothing beyond= =20 > that I would say. Life's too short. While it is not SMP, I still have one or two working i386 (and a compatible AMD) system around. Back in the days where I ran them the last time, there were two issues: * Debian's baseline libc is compiled to use LOCK and some other newish instructions that are not available on a real i386 CPU. * There was a patch flying around to introduce a kernel-based emulator for those instructions. However, this was (at that time) neither included in Debian's kernel, nor in the upstream sources. MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 Signature of: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html the second : --thbZYyT/l9NtheWI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJby2+Hb1edYOZ4bsRApAnAKCFZ1/s5eX01Bci+aqPd9yKPVsnfwCdHHWH l8+H50Bov5lmatsYIF15AZs= =U10Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --thbZYyT/l9NtheWI-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/