| ▲ | Linux 7.1 Expected to Begin Removing I486 CPU Support(phoronix.com) |
| 19 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 7 comments |
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| ▲ | MarsIronPI 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm sad because I have an OLPC XO-1, which is i586 and I suspect that it's next on the chopping block. |
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| ▲ | msla 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Well, that leaves the Pentium family, doesn't it? I wonder how far we are from the removal of all 32-bit x86 support from the mainline Linux kernel. |
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| ▲ | sixthDot 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think Pentium will still be supported. i486 refers to very old 32 bits CPU (80486). The article is not clear but by default I tend to think that i586 and i686 will still be supported. | | |
| ▲ | pseudohadamard an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | "Pentium" also refers to a 30-year range of CPUs with very different capabilities. I suspect that removing (say) P5-specific kludges would also not cause too much grief given it's over thirty years old and dates from about the same time as the newer 486s. At some point you need to clean out the cruft a bit. | |
| ▲ | msla 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Support for the Pentium isn't going away now, certainly, and nobody's announced plans to drop it from the Linux kernel, but every architecture has a time horizon. |
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| ▲ | cozzyd 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There are still 32 bit x86 PCs sold today for embedded applications, I'm pretty sure. | | |
| ▲ | john_alan 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | yep aren't most fridges and ovens etc using 386DXs? Maybe it's all ARM Cortex now? I thought the 386 was still in production. |
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