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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: "Øyvind A. Holm" <sunny@sunbase.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>,
	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: Mention when 386 support ended + update obsolete 386 paths
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 06:12:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160726061229.3339cfae@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160726074543.21311-1-sunny@sunbase.org>

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:45:43 +0200
Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> wrote:

>      - Compiling the kernel with "Processor type" set higher than 386
>        will result in a kernel that does NOT work on a 386.  The
> -      kernel will detect this on bootup, and give up.
> +      kernel will detect this on bootup, and give up. The last kernel
> +      with support for 386 was version 3.7.

So we want the documentation to reflect current kernels, not those from
years gone by.  I can't think of a reason why this paragraph should
continue to exist at all.  Can you make a new version that removes it
altogether?

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-26 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-26  7:45 [PATCH] README: Mention when 386 support ended + update obsolete 386 paths Øyvind A. Holm
2016-07-26 12:12 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2016-07-26 12:53   ` Øyvind A. Holm
2016-08-05  9:22   ` Pavel Machek

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