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That's surprising. What is the 486 missing that Linux needs? Or is it that there are no volunteers to test and maintain Linux on a 486 (as often happens with ol
by cout 1y ago
That's surprising. What is the 486 missing that Linux needs? Or is it that there are no volunteers to test and maintain Linux on a 486 (as often happens with older architectures)?
- detaro 1y agoIt needs a bunch of compatibility code and the maintainers felt it wasn't worth the effort of taking care of that anymore: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250425084216.3913608-1-mingo@kernel.org/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250425084216.3913608-1-mingo@... https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wicfBCyMj_x5BiL32o55jqXfnxgn=X5BZZjA-FFER82Jg@mail.gmail.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wicfBCyMj_x5BiL32o55jqXfn... https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjCiEk-kc-vOug2GKJdhHKce3vWALbqjybLPcKLHNmEbQ@mail.gmail.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjCiEk-kc-vOug2GKJdhHKce3...