On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 12:58 AM Arnd Bergmann <a...@kernel.org> wrote: > > After v5.10 was officially declared an LTS kernel,
I have a question here. Maybe I have missed something, but how LTS helps in this case? LTS AFAIR has a rule "upstream first". How can you provide a patch to be backported if there is no upstream for it anymore? > * 80486SX/DX: 80386 CPUs were dropped in 2012, and there are > indications that 486 have no users either on recent kernels. > There is still the Vortex86 family of SoCs, and the oldest of those were > 486SX-class, but all the modern ones are 586-class. > * Alpha 2106x: First generation that lacks some of the later features. > Since all Alphas are ancient by now, it's hard to tell whether these have > any fewer users. We still have Intel Quark available. I run vanilla from time to time on it due to the presence of peripherals I can't find elsewhere on x86 boards. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
