Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 1 month agoLinux Kernel to Drop Support for Legacy i486 and Early 586 CPUslinuxiac.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarezurohki@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIt’s apparently the Pentium 1 and older, so those chips were discontinued in 1999. Almost 26 years old.
minus-squareLeFantome@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoTo be clear, you still still be able to run 32 bit binaries on a 64 bit kernel. So, there will be no more kernel support for Pentium (in 5 years or more) but you will still run i686 userland code. I do not see this changing for a very long time.
minus-squareLeFantome@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month 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’s apparently the Pentium 1 and older, so those chips were discontinued in 1999. Almost 26 years old.
To be clear, you still still be able to run 32 bit binaries on a 64 bit kernel. So, there will be no more kernel support for Pentium (in 5 years or more) but you will still run i686 userland code. I do not see this changing for a very long time.
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.