Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4) on Nostr: Linus might be willing to drop support for i486 processors[1] from the #Linux ...
Linus might be willing to drop support for i486 processors[1] from the #Linux #kernel.
No, nobody asked for that directly; he brought that up in a discussion himself: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3DwhESMW2v0cd0Ye%2BAnV0Hp9j%2BMm4BO2xJo93eQcC1xghUA@mail.gmail.com/ #LinuxKernel
[1] and a couple of processors which _claimed_ to be Pentium class, but weren't
No, nobody asked for that directly; he brought that up in a discussion himself: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3DwhESMW2v0cd0Ye%2BAnV0Hp9j%2BMm4BO2xJo93eQcC1xghUA@mail.gmail.com/ #LinuxKernel
[1] and a couple of processors which _claimed_ to be Pentium class, but weren't