Linux hasn't even bothered continuing supporting processors in the same family, dropping support for 386: * https://www.zdnet.com/article/good-bye-386-linux-to

Linux hasn't even bothered continuing supporting processors in the same family, dropping support for 386: * https://www.zdnet.com/article/good-bye-386-linux-to-drop-support-for-i386-chips-with-next-major-release/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/good-bye-386-linux-to-drop-sup... and more recently, 486: * https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-devs-start-removing-support-for-37-year-old-intel-486-cpu-head-honcho-linus-torvalds-says-zero-real-reason-to-continue-support https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-devs-start... and here we are expecting support for completely different CPU classes. :)