The End of Linux I486 Support Looks Nigh

The end of Linux i486 support looks nigh

: After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs

The End of an Era: Linux Drops the i486, and 37 Years of x86 History Go With It

Intel’s i486 processor debuted in 1989. Ronald Reagan had just left office. The Berlin Wall was still standing. Tim Berners-Lee was drafting his proposal for the World Wide Web. And the chip that powered a generation of beige desktop towers — the 486 — was about to change personal computing forever. Now, nearly four decades later, Linux is finally letting it go. A patch series submitted to the Linux kernel mailing list proposes removing support …

Why did Linux drop i486 support?

Linux removes i486 CPU support Linux is beginning to remove support for the Intel 80486 class i486 architecture, ending a compatibility path that has effectively lasted decades. The trigger is straightforward: no Linux distribution vendor is still shipping builds with i486 CPU support. With…

Linux Finally Starts Removing Support for Intel's 37-Year-Old i486 Processor

"It's finally time," writes Phoronix — since "no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support." "A patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately re...

Linux devs start removing support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU — head honcho Linus Torvalds says 'zero real reason' to continue support

Linus Torvalds recently telegraphed that there was ‘zero real reason’ to continue support for these ancient CPUs.