Re: proposal [Forky i386] : linux-image-pentium4

On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 01:23:06PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>One issue that keeps on bothering me since Trixie is that we ship i386
>without any kernel whatsoever. Yes, I agree, 32-bit architectures are
>largely deprecated, and most of us have moved on to 64-bit
>architectures, but shipping i386 as a demi-architecture simply doesn't
>make sense.

It does, when you consider the reason it's shipped: to ship libraries 
needed to run i386 software without introducing a new special concept that 
would allow us to specifically ship only libraries.

>More recently, Go and Rust developers added "something SSE2 or newer"
>to their baseline. Bumping i386's baseline to Pentium 4 would fix
>this

i386 baseline was bumped to the x86-64 equivalent in trixie.

>If Debian will not at least do this much, then let's please do
>everyone a favor and move i386 to debian-ports completely

This won't do *everyone* a favor.

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WBR, wRAR

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