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Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 19.05.2025, 20:30

I though 486 was dropped many years ago but maybe I mixed it with Debian distro support that AFAIK needs at least 686 now. And I think most of distros are x64-only now so one may still compile 586 kernel but would be coupled with very few distros that still supports x86-32...

Vortex CPU also came in my mind. It depends how smart they did CPU detection. I think vortex has CPUID 4xx and if new kernel refuse anything <500 then vortex would have problem...

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Complete thread:

• Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - bocke, 17.05.2025, 22:12
  • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - Oso2k, 17.05.2025, 22:25
    • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - bocke, 18.05.2025, 02:56
      • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - ecm, 18.05.2025, 03:29
        • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - bocke, 18.05.2025, 21:19
  • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - RayeR, 19.05.2025, 20:30
    • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - bocke, 20.05.2025, 18:14