What was last kernel that booted on hardware XY? database was Re: [BUG] x86 : i486 reporting to be vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre_V1/Spectre_V2A

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: What was last kernel that booted on hardware XY? database was Re: [BUG] x86 : i486 reporting to be vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre_V1/Spectre_V2A
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:53:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180215095320.GA2112@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180213210438.GA6569@amd>

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Hi!

> > > You might think this absolutely crazy, but I would be willing to test
> > > such systems if I can get my hands on the needed hardware that I lack.
> > > I am already doing sanity testing on Intel
> > > i486/i586/i586-MMX/i686-PentiumPro systems, I just don't have the
> > > clone cpus (Cyrix, etc).
> > >
> > > While few people are using the 32bit kernel, I don't think we want to
> > > kill it completely just yet.
> > 
> > I have a working Cyrix MII (was actively using it last year, now upgraded to a 
> > P3-based Celeron). Some AMD CPUs too - K6(maybe -2 or -3?), not sure about K5 
> > and also a Rise mP6. But never got a WinChip.
> 
> I'm using Core Duo daily (backup machine, web browsing), and use
> Pentium M as an ssh client say once in month.

BTW... I'd really like to have a database of machine, kernel version,
cpuinfo, config... So that questions like "what is the latest kernel
that is known to be running on this hardware" and "what config should
I start from".

For example, I have nokia N810 here. It was supported by Linux at some
point, but then we moved to dts, and stuff changed, and I can no
longer figure how to boot it.

I guess "what was last kernel that worked on Cyrix MII" is also
relevant question.

Is there such database? If not, would people be interested in
contributing if I create one?

									Pavel
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