From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Adam Osuchowski <adwol@zonk.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Is 386 processor still supported?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:36:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090115123614.GR11087@lug-owl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0901130047160.10547@ftp.linux-mips.org>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 992 bytes --]
On Tue, 2009-01-13 01:06:55 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
>
> Myself, I could not resist trying an APIC-based 486 SMP box and possibly
> fixing issues if I found one and it was MPS-compliant, but nothing beyond
> 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
--
Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481
Signature of: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html
the second :
[-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-15 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-08 12:03 Is 386 processor still supported? Adam Osuchowski
2009-01-08 13:05 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 13:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-08 13:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 14:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-08 14:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 14:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-08 15:04 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-08 15:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13 1:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 12:36 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw [this message]
2009-01-15 13:22 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 13:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-15 14:15 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 14:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 9:00 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-16 10:13 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-16 11:18 ` Andrey Panin
2009-01-16 13:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-15 14:20 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-15 14:37 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2009-01-15 14:25 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-15 14:44 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 20:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-15 14:46 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-08 16:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-08 16:27 ` Andi Kleen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20090115123614.GR11087@lug-owl.de \
--to=jbglaw@lug-owl.de \
--cc=adwol@zonk.pl \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=jkosina@suse.cz \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=macro@linux-mips.org \
--cc=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=npiggin@suse.de \
--cc=peterz@infradead.org \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.