Delete old footnotes about why 80386 support was dropped

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml b/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml
index 6e962659a..f5eb2cbb6 100644
--- a/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml
+++ b/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml
@@ -24,32 +24,9 @@ processors like the Athlon XP and Intel P4 Xeon.
 However, &debian; GNU/Linux &releasename; will <emphasis>not</emphasis> run
 on 386 or earlier processors.  Despite the architecture name "i386", support
 for actual 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge
-(r3.1) release of &debian;<footnote>
-
-<para>
-We have long tried to avoid this, but in the end it was necessary due a
-unfortunate series of issues with the compiler and the kernel, starting
-with an bug in the C++ ABI provided by GCC.  You should still be able to
-run &debian; GNU/Linux on actual 80386 processors if you compile your own
-kernel and compile all packages from source, but that is beyond the
-scope of this manual.
-</para>
-
-</footnote>. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286 or earlier
-chips in the series.)  All i486 and later processors are still
-supported<footnote>
-
-<para>
-
-Many &debian; packages will actually run slightly faster on modern computers
-as a positive side effect of dropping support for these old chips.  The
-i486, introduced in 1989, has three opcodes (bswap, cmpxchg, and xadd)
-which the i386, introduced in 1986, did not have. Previously, these could not
-be easily used by most &debian; packages; now they can.
-
-</para>
-
-</footnote>.
+(r3.1) release of &debian;. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286
+or earlier chips in the series.)  All i486 and later processors are still
+supported.
 
 </para>
 <note><para>