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Linus Torvalds has announced that the Linux kernel will no longer bear the 80386 processors de Intel, with which precisely the history of this nucleus began. |
Ingo Molnar has written in the mail server Linux kernel support for the i386 architecture was delaying kernel development as more effort was required by programmers to keep features completely obsolete. For example, when they had to support SMP for multi-core processors or multi-processor systems, one of the biggest difficulties was that all the new functions were compatible with Intel 386 processors, which by design cannot work in parallel with other processors.
We will see the abandonment of support in the next version (3.8) of the kernel. So kernel 3.7, which was released a couple of days ago, will be the last version that we can compile for computers with Intel 386 processors.
It is worth noting that these processors, originally developed in 1991, ran at 33 mHZ and were supported by Intel until 2007.