On April 26, 2025 11:55:50 AM PDT, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote: > >* H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > >> Dropping CMOV would mean dropping P5 support. > >Yeah, I think we should make the cutoff at the 686 level. Is there any >strong reason not to do that? Stable kernels will still exist for a >very long time for ancient boards. > > Ingo
I don't think some of the embedded 586-level ISA CPUs are ancient.