News [Phoronix] Linux 7.1 Expected To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support

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It's finally time: a patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately removing Intel 486 CPU support from the Linux kernel. Anyone still using an i486 CPU with an upstream Linux kernel would be incredibly rare and no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support, but in case you are, you can continue to be running one of the existing Linux LTS kernel versions...

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Phasing-Out-i486

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