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> >The i386 is older than some of the kernel hackers, and given that a >modern kernel is pretty painful with less than say 16MB or RAM in >practice I have to concur. (Sure, you can't get a reasonable system to work on 16MB, but the kernel is fine with 5 megs of RAM. In fact, ancient i386 boxes usually do not have "big" things like SCSI, USB or Audio.) >, I don't see that it would be all that terrible to drop >support for ancient CPUs at some point (yes, I know some newer >embedded (and similar) CPUs might be affected here too, but surely not >that many that people really use --- and they could just use 2.4.x). Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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