Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!!
Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]>
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> writes: > Marc Haber wrote: > >> I wonder what they'll do when the first kernel appears that can't be >> compiled on x86 > > Is that likely to happen, for as long as the kernel supports 32-bit > addressing on so many non-x86 architectures? > > Looking at the current arch list > <https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch>, there’s arm (not > arm64), m68k, also (both 32/64 bits) mips, powerpc and sparc, just > from the ones I can easily tell. 486 support was removed in April: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0972ba5605a0a0cd8a9e74558b97a9c9626adfb5 586-class CPUs remain supported but only if they have RDTSC (so AMD K5 is gone) https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/cpu&id=dbafa16ec2b6be40055db181c99f2529b20dd951 Pentium and later are still supported AFAIK. Looking at non-x86 platforms, armv7 support could in in the mid 2030s: https://lwn.net/Articles/1035727/ Couldn’t find anything definitive about other architectures. -- https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/