386 support removed from (latest) Linux kernel
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kern...71d1a0b2a82e21
This won't affect most of us for a while, but now you know its coming. (Maybe this should be cc'd to HW ?) |
I don't really think that this is relevant to anyone, except hardcore nostalgics and developers of the few embedded boards that still use a 386 based core.
If that simplifies kernel developing and makes development faster and less bug prone due to the simplification I am totally for it. If you really still need to use 386 hardware I doubt that the changes to the kernel that will be made in the future are relevant for your hardware at all, so you can simply stick with a current stable kernel. Or switch to one of the BSDs. |
What every happened to support for the 286?! ;)
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EDIT: Nevermind.
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EDIT: Notice the above reference is for embedded but you can find other information. As I said good luck! |
There does come a point in time when you can safely-enough say that, even if the hardware is "386-compatible," in the sense that it is capable of running software which assumes no more than "386," the chip itself most certainly is not an 80386 microprocessor. You can, at some point, "sunset" support for that particular physical CPU. That time has reasonably come.
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I agree with the sunset rule. World users may still need to run a Gnu/Linux on older equipment but they should not expect newer releases to run on legacy equipment. Those users will still have access to earlier releases of Gnu/Linux that could be used. Some maintainers do support security updates for earlier releases. One example would be Slackware, PV did drop some earlier release from the support list this past year. |
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