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Re:386-DX/SX support nuked from Linux Kernel by bodyfour on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @06:35AM (#4909587)
It makes me sad from a retrocomputing standpoint as well. I have a sun386i in storage that I always said I would port linux to one day. Oh well...

I can't blame them for wanting to drop it though, not only do you not have the full range of atomic operations, but also the MMU doesn't respect the WP bit from kernelspace which means special code in copy_to_user()

I wonder how long they will keep the 486SX alive now that it's the last one that requires 387 emulation.

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Re:386-DX/SX support nuked from Linux Kernel by dbaupp on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @09:15AM (#4910083)
> I would port linux to one day. Oh well...

You've still got all the old kernels that do support it. And Debian certainly has historical archives (http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive) and I'm sure other distros do too, if you want all the other linux architecture.

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