More than 140,000 lines of code bite the dust as ancient CPUs, bus mice, and other legacy leftovers face the chop Linux kernel 7.1 is out, bringing significant changes that have been brewing for years – including the long promised removal of support for Intel 486 chip and its contemporaries. More than 140,000 lines of code have been chopped, with more facing deletion. Back in May 2025, we wrote that kernel 6.15 would drop 486 support , but that change was canceled at the last minute. Now it...
