Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Anybody got 2.4.0 running on a 386 ? | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:49:34 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > So called 'sigma sigma' 386 and higher. Ie we dont support the 386 with the > > 32bit mul bugs. > > Is this a new thing in 2.4.0 ? Could it possibly cause a crash as > early as pagetable_init() ?
We've never supported pre sigmasigma cpus although someone posted a patch to Linux 1.2 once. You won't find many of the cpus before that. At the time 386 was priced like a Xeon is now and most were recalled/pulled when the mul bug came out.
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