Hi Am 02.05.22 um 11:05 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
On Monday 2022-05-02 10:56, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
Am 02.05.22 um 09:53 schrieb Stefan Seyfried:
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.
You'll definitely need a CPU with SSE2 support.
That's just bullshit.
Thank you for this nice and welcoming response.
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...).
Yes, exactly. You can run a subset of the packages. Some of the graphics libraries need SSE2 and as a result, the modern desktops tend to not work or they are unreliable. I had success with the more basic ones, but Gnome or KDE is flaky. Best regards Thomas -- Thomas Zimmermann Graphics Driver Developer SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev