Subject: Re: Bug#1004894: sudo: [i386] invalid opcode

From: Martin-Éric Racine <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:23:40 +0200

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 4:21 PM Marc Haber
<[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Control: tags -1 wontfix
> Control: severity -1 minor
> thanks
>
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 09:02:02AM +0100, Henning Paul wrote:
> > IIRC, it doesn't implement all of the i686 instruction set (hence the
> > illegal opcode).
>
> I apologize, but it looks like the Geode LX is no longer among the CPUs
> supported in Debian. FWIW, the stretch release notes still mentioned the
> Geode LX explicitly in chapters 2.1 and 5.1.7:
>
> 2.1:
> Support for 32-bit PCs no longer covers vanilla i586

The Geode LX is not a vanilla 586. It is a vanilla 686. The reported
CPU variant has simply remained at 586 for reasons only known to AMD.

Martin-Éric