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-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.
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.