Thus spake Linus Torvalds:
Pull "Nuke 386-DX/SX support" from Ingo Molnar: "This tree removes ancient-386-CPUs support and thus zaps quite a bit of complexity: 24 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 425 deletions(-) ... which complexity has plagued us with extra work whenever we wanted to change SMP primitives, for years. Unfortunately there's a nostalgic cost: your old original 386 DX33 system from early 1991 won't be able to boot modern Linux kernels anymore. Sniff." I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.
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