"Maintaining this legacy support is becoming increasingly difficult to justify. Developers are still spending time on complex compatibility layers for very old 32-bit CPUs, which are hardly used in practice with recent kernels."
"The last time such a step was taken was in 2012, when support for the 80386 was dropped. It was already clear at that time that this type of hardware no longer plays a role in modern kernel development."
The Linux kernel is set to phase out support for i486 processors in version 7.1, as indicated by a recent patch from Ingo Molnar. This change will remove specific configuration options for 486 systems, making it impossible to build new kernels for these older processors. The decision aligns with a trend of eliminating outdated architectures, following the previous removal of support for the 80386 in 2012. Molnar argues that maintaining legacy support is increasingly unjustifiable, as it diverts developers' time from more relevant kernel work.
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