Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:25:41 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
       Adam Osuchowski <adwol@zonk.pl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Is 386 processor still supported?
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> userland support with little burden for both Linux and respective user 
> software maintainers.  Certainly it adds some bloat to the kernel, but I 
> think it is not an option that should be outright dismissed without 
> consideration.

Nobody normally builds for 386 (and you need the big FPU emulator etc too
and pay a big penalty for the lack of working WP bits) so it wouldn't be
a big penalty if you can actually find an i386 user any more ;)

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