Gli sviluppatori del kernel Linux stanno procedendo per rimuovere il supporto per i processori i486
Ingo Molnar, maintainer of the x86 architecture, locking mechanism, and task scheduler in the Linux kernel, has proposed a set of patches to remove support for 486 processors (M486, M486SX, AMD ELAN) and early series of 586 processors from the kernel. The kernel will retain only the ability to work with x86 processors that support the CX8 instruction (CMPXCHG8B) and the TSC (Time Stamp Counter) register, […]
