To offer some perspective. The Linux kernel will now stop supporting a CPU from 1989.
Lol. Yes. I’m going to add even more perspective on how ludicrous the difference is.
TL;DR for below: A thing we can’t physically do anyway will become less convenient in the next Limux Kernel, but still will not actually be impossible (at least on the software side). It will still be impossible on the proprietary hardware, anyway, so it is a moot point. Which is why the software support is being archived.
Specifically, it will not be possible (from a software perspective) to install a 486 CPU from 1989 into a motherboard built next year, without copying and recompiling the available source code.
So it will still be possible (from a software perspective), but it will be much less convenient.
What’s that? Installing a 486 CPU hasn’t been physically possible on proprietary motherboard hardware for many years already? Fair enough.
What’s that also? Almost no one wants to slot a CPU from 1998, into modern hardware.
But the open source nature of the code does still keep our options open, in case that changes next year.
Lol. Yes. I’m going to add even more perspective on how ludicrous the difference is.
TL;DR for below: A thing we can’t physically do anyway will become less convenient in the next Limux Kernel, but still will not actually be impossible (at least on the software side). It will still be impossible on the proprietary hardware, anyway, so it is a moot point. Which is why the software support is being archived.
Specifically, it will not be possible (from a software perspective) to install a 486 CPU from 1989 into a motherboard built next year, without copying and recompiling the available source code.
So it will still be possible (from a software perspective), but it will be much less convenient.
What’s that? Installing a 486 CPU hasn’t been physically possible on proprietary motherboard hardware for many years already? Fair enough.
What’s that also? Almost no one wants to slot a CPU from 1998, into modern hardware.
But the open source nature of the code does still keep our options open, in case that changes next year.