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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Re: linux 4.17.7 not suitable for i386
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:58:55 -0400
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To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> FYI, the latest stable Linux release (4.17.7) is not suitable for i386
> (i686-linux) systems. Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman:
>
> "NOTE, this kernel release is broken for i386 systems.  If you are
> running such a machine, do NOT update to this release, you will not be
> able to boot properly.
>
> I did this release anyway with this known problem as there is a fix in
> here for x86-64 systems that was nasty to track down and was affecting
> people.  Given that the huge majority of systems are NOT i386, I felt
> this was a safe release to do at this point in time."
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/17/434
>
> So, we should take care to preserve the linux-libre 4.17.6 package
> definition for i686-linux, or skip this release.

Thanks, Leo.  I guess I'll skip the 4.17.6 update for now, but I'm open
to other suggestions.  Hopefully upstream will resolve this issue soon.

      Mark