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pdw on Dec 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 386-DX/SX support nuked from Linux Kernel

Support is a bit exaggerated, the 386 option hasn't compiled since the 3.2 release due to unconditional use of 486-only instructions (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44931). Who knows if it actually worked before that.

lmm on Dec 12, 2012 [–]

It was working in '07; I gave up maintaining that system when glibc went 486-only.

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