Re: Anybody got 2.4.0 running on a 386 ?

Alan Cox
2001-01-10T15:48:50Z

> > So called 'sigma sigma' 386 and higher. Ie we dont support the 386 with the
> > 32bit mul bugs.
>
> Is this a new thing in 2.4.0 ? Could it possibly cause a crash as
> early as pagetable_init() ?

We've never supported pre sigmasigma cpus although someone posted a patch to
Linux 1.2 once. You won't find many of the cpus before that. At the time 386
was priced like a Xeon is now and most were recalled/pulled when the mul bug
came out.