Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 15 hours agoLinux Kernel to Drop Support for Legacy i486 and Early 586 CPUslinuxiac.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down11
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minus-squareLuffy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up30·14 hours agoIt says a lot about linux that them dropping support for an over 20 year old CPU is a big anouncement
minus-squarezurohki@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-214 hours agoIt’s apparently the Pentium 1 and older, so those chips were discontinued in 1999. Almost 26 years old. Ditching i686 could be a problem for people running 32-bit stuff on modern hardware, though. I expect that’ll hang around for a while yet.
minus-squareLeFantome@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 hours agoThere were still new 486 compatible chips being released up until about 2010. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex86 They released a 486sx (no FPU) in 2007.
It says a lot about linux that them dropping support for an over 20 year old CPU is a big anouncement
It’s apparently the Pentium 1 and older, so those chips were discontinued in 1999. Almost 26 years old.
Ditching i686 could be a problem for people running 32-bit stuff on modern hardware, though. I expect that’ll hang around for a while yet.
There were still new 486 compatible chips being released up until about 2010.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex86
They released a 486sx (no FPU) in 2007.