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| On 28 February 2015 i486 architecture will be removed from PLD Th main tree. | On 28 February 2015 i486 architecture will be removed from PLD Th main tree. | ||
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| + | This also means drop of support for i586 class CPUs and some old, rare "degraded" i686 chips lacking cmov instructions support. | ||
| Growing number of packages that either do not build for i486 or are severly crippled (like IcedTea or programs requiring atomic operations) with loss of users of this architecture caused us to finally abandon it. | Growing number of packages that either do not build for i486 or are severly crippled (like IcedTea or programs requiring atomic operations) with loss of users of this architecture caused us to finally abandon it. | ||
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