On Mon, 2 May 2022, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Hi all,
what is the minimal suitable CPU type for openSUSE Tumbleweed (I know that i586 is deprecated / less supported, but I guess there is still a "minimal viable target system" for it)?
I updated a Pentium-M (Dothan, probably) based Toughbook CF-51 and after finding that I need "rodata=off" kernel parameter for the kernel to even boot, it fails miserably later in userspace apparently (it just hangs).
So before I'm filing bug reports, the question is if this is still supposed to work.
I'm not aware of any concious limit set apart from some CPU features supported only by some Pentiums and up for atomics. The concious limits probably come from the kernel and kernel folks could clarify there (but you should be fine there). But of course nowadays everybody assumes 64bit and SSE2 as Thomas said so things tend to bitrot. Do you experience problems only when entering graphics mode and thus desktop features or is it already the console mode not working? Richard.
Best regards,
seife
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