Re: [PATCH] README: Mention when 386 support ended + update obsolete 386 paths

Path	csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!news.panservice.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod
From	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] README: Mention when 386 support ended + update obsolete 386 paths
Date	Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:30:02 +0200
Message-ID	<s2JC2-5By-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	<rZ5Uu-853-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <rZ9v4-1PL-37@gated-at.bofh.it>
X-Original-To	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
MIME-Version	1.0
Content-Type	text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Disposition	inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding	8bit
User-Agent	Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)
Sender	robomod@news.nic.it
List-ID	<linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org>
X-Mailing-List	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Approved	robomod@news.nic.it
Lines	24
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway
X-Original-Cc	Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>, Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
X-Original-Date	Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:22:43 +0200
X-Original-Message-ID	<20160805092243.GA19068@amd>
X-Original-References	<20160726074543.21311-1-sunny@sunbase.org> <20160726061229.3339cfae@lwn.net>
X-Original-Sender	linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Xref	csiph.com linux.kernel:1456978

Show key headers only | View raw

On Tue 2016-07-26 06:12:29, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:45:43 +0200
> Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> wrote:
> 
> >      - Compiling the kernel with "Processor type" set higher than 386
> >        will result in a kernel that does NOT work on a 386.  The
> > -      kernel will detect this on bootup, and give up.
> > +      kernel will detect this on bootup, and give up. The last kernel
> > +      with support for 386 was version 3.7.
> 
> So we want the documentation to reflect current kernels, not those from
> years gone by.  I can't think of a reason why this paragraph should
> continue to exist at all.  Can you make a new version that removes it
> altogether?

You may want to generalize it to "will not boot if you se processor
type too high", but I'd keep v3.7 note -- it is going to be tricky to
find out in any other way.

Best regards,
									Pavel
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

[PATCH] README: Mention when 386 support ended + update obsolete 386 paths Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> - 2016-07-26 10:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] README: Mention when 386 support ended + update  obsolete 386 paths Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-07-26 14:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] README: Mention when 386 support ended + update obsolete  386 paths Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> - 2016-07-26 15:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] README: Mention when 386 support ended + update obsolete  386 paths Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-08-05 11:30 +0200

csiph-web