From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759559AbcHEJWt (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2016 05:22:49 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:41729 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759434AbcHEJWs (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2016 05:22:48 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:22:43 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: =?iso-8859-1?B?2Hl2aW5kIEEu?= Holm , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Diego Viola , Jiri Kosina , Vineet Gupta Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: Mention when 386 support ended + update obsolete 386 paths Message-ID: <20160805092243.GA19068@amd> References: <20160726074543.21311-1-sunny@sunbase.org> <20160726061229.3339cfae@lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20160726061229.3339cfae@lwn.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue 2016-07-26 06:12:29, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:45:43 +0200 > Øyvind A. Holm 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? You may want to generalize it to "will not boot if you se processor type too high", but I'd keep v3.7 note -- it is going to be tricky to find out in any other way. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html