[HN Gopher] The Linux Kernel May Finally Phase Out Intel I486 CP...
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The Linux Kernel May Finally Phase Out Intel I486 CPU Support
Author : axelfontaine
Score : 7 points
Date : 2022-10-23 21:53 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| TillE wrote:
| > Not that I'm convinced most distros even do 32-bit development
| anyway these days.
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| 32-bit is essentially dead outside of weird scenarios like
| companies still running Windows XP. Even the cheap Android phones
| should all be 64-bit these days.
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| So unless you really need to support old hardware (or
| microcontrollers I guess), it means you can now confidently do
| fun stuff like cramming data into the 64-bit user data pointer in
| callback APIs.
| [deleted]
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