I don’t think this affects anything other than some really ancient machines from the 1990s which would struggle to have enough RAM to run modern Linux anyway. But the problem is I could be wrong about that and there could be embedded systems that do need modern updates due to internet exposure about or other systems running apparently old instruction sets all over the world. I don’t know so I would want to see a feedback site set up for people to say if they need this support and to estimate how many exist.
Very impressive the amount of years it was supported.
I remember running Linux on a 386er board with two(!) CPUs. Those were the times…
I wonder if that new instructions are needed for anything useful.
I thought they already removed i486 support.
