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Linux x86 32-bit Patches Clean Old Kernel Code After Recently Removing Vintage CPUs

Phoronix · US · Operating Systems · 11/6/2026, 9:11:31 AM

With the Linux kernel having phased out i486 CPU support and dropping old AMD Elan SoC code along with removing other obsolete and stagnate 32-bit x86 hardware support, some x86 32-bit clean-ups are proceeding along with being able to make the kernel depend unconditionally now on some features...

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