Is Linux Finally Killing 35 Year Old x86 CPUs

Back in 2012 support for i386 CPUs were dropped and back a few years ago there was talk to drop i486 support but that didn't end up going through so now there's another shot at making this happen.

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2022 Article: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-removes-486-cpu-support
Prior Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4EPXwUV3aQ
LKML Post 2022: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wikUaRM5H_y1Bc+QyvGi40dKDL8fnCTyz7ECbwK7aHNPQ@mail.gmail.com/
LML 2025 Post: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250425084216.3913608-1-mingo@kernel.org/

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