
12 Dec
2012
12 Dec
'12
8:52 p.m.
From Ingo's commit log: "Unfortunately there's a nostalgic cost: your
sfcrazy writes with news that Linus pulled a patch by Ingo Molnar to remove support for the 386 from the kernel. old original 386 DX33 system from early 1991 won't be able to boot modern Linux kernels anymore. Sniff." Linus adds: "I'm not sentimental. Good riddance." -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/12/12/1414238/linux-nukes-386-support Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174