Hi Again, (Replying directly to myself, to not single one of the helpful comments out :-) Executive summary: already fixed in Kernel:HEAD After I was finally able to boot with "rodata=off acpi=off" (otherwise the system would hang up relatively hard, during transition from initrd to root from disk) I did investigate the "acpi=off" issue but did not find the culprit, then just for testing installed the latest 5.18-rc5 from Kernel:HEAD, which magically fixed everything (no rodata=off or acpi=off needed anymore). I now also found that the Pentium M "Dothan" (Model 13 Stepping 6) is actually capable of running the PAE kernel. It also features sse2 already. Yes, I'm not expecting 4k youtube playback in Firefox (this will even fail because of the slow 54mbit WiFi module :-) The machine is intended to be used in the garage to do some programming and debugging on motor control units and maybe it will even ride a few kilometers strapped to one of my motorbikes. The toughbook is especially suited for this job because 1) it is tough ;-) 2) it has a real serial port 3) it has a display which is readable in plain sunlight (then via its passive-reflective mode) 4) it is really tough. I just killed a thinkpad display, just by dropping it from maybe 80cm (motorcycle seat) onto the concrete floor. They are not building them anymore like they used to... ;-) Additionally, I would totally understand if we make a conscious decision some time in the future to drop off support for > 15 years old hardware (even if I have quite some of that lying around ;-)), I was just not sure if this was already the case here and if we had forgotten to communicate this more clearly. I'm happy that this is not the case, though. Apparently, I just happened to hit a bad time window when updating when my machine was temporarily broken :-) Thanks for all the hints, have a lot of fun... seife On 02.05.22 09:53, 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)? -- Stefan Seyfried
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