Comment 5 for bug 751018

Howdy,
  To Steve Langasek, the change took place in Maverick. I have a Via C3 based thin client that I use as a samba server and to demonstrate Ubuntu. The release notes for Maverick say "With 10.10 we have also dropped support for i586 and lower processors, as well as i686 processors without cmov support. ". I can say for sure that Lucid and below worked fine for me on the VIA. So, I don;t know about actual 386 machines.

To Colin Watson, that makes sense to me. I guess I should do 2 things. See if there is somewhere I can request Debian to make that change. And, I should write some text for you. I am not sure where this text would go. Perhaps in the Linux Kernel section of the release notes. I expect you want this short. I would put something like:

 Intel/AMD/Via architecture note:
  i386 refers to processors that have support for the Intel 32 bit instructions. In order to take advantage of certain compiler optimizations, a 686 processor or higher is needed.
 amd64 refers to processors using the 64 bit instruction set extension created by AMD. It is generally known as x86-64.

  I don't know if any SIS or other processors are supported by one or the other of these architectures.