Re: [PATCH] Futexes IV (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores)

Alan Cox
2002-03-13T16:22:52Z

> > And no, it's not worth discontinuing i386 support. It just isn't
> > painful enough to maintain.
>
> How about just dropping 386 + SMP support?

We dont support SMP 386 boxes anyway. Nothing to drop. We've never supported
anything earlier than 486 SMP like the early MP1.1 compliant IBM boards,
(and briefly the compaq non MP 1.1 compliant stuff (Thomas Radke - the
forgotten man in the creation of SMP Linux - did 2/4 way compaq stuff)