Linux Nukes 386 Support
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
Bugger. Guess no-one will want to re-home this old Compaq Contura Aero 4/25 I want to get rid of. 4MB RAM, 80MB? HDD, external 1.44MB? FDD, ext. PSU/Original? Compaq Bag. All operational, bar battery, which is long gone I think. Elroy. NOTE: Looks like they could run Win95... think I have a few OEM originals somewhere... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Aero Peter Reutemann wrote:
sfcrazy writes with news that Linus pulled a patch by Ingo Molnar to remove support for the 386 from the kernel.
From Ingo's commit log: "Unfortunately there's a nostalgic cost: your 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
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