Bug#809203: linux-image-586 4.3+70 installs a 4.3.3 kernel for 686 only, which doesn't boot on 586

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#809203: linux-image-586 4.3+70 installs a 4.3.3 kernel for 686 only, which doesn't boot on 586
Date	2016-01-13 22:20 +0100
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On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 21:43 +0100, hikaru.debian@web.de wrote:
> Dear Ben,
> 
> > You'll need to stick with jessie as it is not planned to support such
> > old processors in stretch.
> 
> Could you elaborate on that please?
> I found the anouncement for the Stretch Alpha 5 Installer [1], but apart from
> that there seems to be no (semi)official statement addressing the drop of i586
> support for Stretch (yet).
<
> Being the author of #783082 and #783293 I fully understand why Debian would
> want to get rid of i586, but some more detailed reference, that shows how this
> decision was made, would be nice.
> Is there a discussion on a Debian mailing list you could link to or something 
> similar?

It is linked from the announcement.

Ben.

> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> fyi: Due to your quote above I opened a thread in the unofficial German
> Debianforum at [2].
> 
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/01/msg00001.html
> [2] https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=159100
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Ben Hutchings
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