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Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 08/14] mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks
Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:28:16 -0300
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Trying sending again since I am not sure if it went through the first time. I’m not used to the mailing list.

As someone who still regularly uses hardware from this era, and often runs Linux on it, this would definitely be a blow to which machines I can actively use. Linux support is a big part of how I use these machines, since I usually have them connected to my LAN and the internet, and networking support on MS-DOS and Windows 9x rots more each year in terms of support for modern protocols and security. I would be very disappointed, and impacted, if Linux dropped 486 support.