On Monday 2022-05-02 11:17, Stephan Kulow wrote:
what is the minimal suitable CPU type for openSUSE Tumbleweed
I have here a Tumbleweed 20220308 on an Athlon XP (SSE1 only).
Granted, Mesa does not run because of SSE2 shenanigans, but it can do basic Xorg with nouveau (how else could I investigate that Mesa didn't work...).
Thomas tried to help. And that your Tumbleweed runs on Athlon XP does *not* help Stefan. So you just add an insult, but nothing else.
I absolutely disagree with your views. 1. The original question asked for "minimal". 2. We can surely agree that the result of doing a Tumbleweed text installation with the "Server-/Text console" pattern (however it is called) is a reasonable interpretation for "minimal". 3. Thomas made a blunt statement that is factually untrue with respect to (1) and (2). That's like going into a car dealership, posing as an associate and telling interested parties "yeah it doesn't have that". That's either a great way of upselling them something else, but just as easily can make them leave because they did not find what they were hoping for. 4. I specified information past (2), namely about Xorg and Mesa which extends the textonly install. Naming Athlon also established temporal capabilities; Dothan M is somewhat newer than AXP, and if AXP can do it, the user expectation is/should be that Dothan can do it, too. But that you did not want to see those three data points from (4) and instead focused on the one expletive in the mail is really telling..
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.
Extrapolating "it works for me" should lead to the conclusion that requiring rodata=off is either a relatively new issue, or one that does not manifest on AXP. I did not comment on hangs yet, but here goes: Hangs were not observed yb me; rather, things crashed as they should (SIGILL due to SSE2, naturally).