@skyhawk3355 I remember awhile ago I needed to create a one-off kernel for a system that had a 486 cpu. I checked but I don’t have that kernel any more.
I just recompiled the linux 6.6.85 for a 586 based CPU. I can recompile for a 486, but I don’t know if that is going to get us anything better.
Here is 6.6.85 586 version
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GAzFjbtpDVXXCRpe6bIZ5mwySSXeDHko/view?usp=drive_link
Here is 6.6.85 586 where I stripped out some drivers like scsi, nvme, uncommon network drivers, virtualization drivers, etc. I was able to strip out over 1MB of kernel size from the previous one above. Did I through out too much?? YMMV.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13dE7BLgofsFiNJj_Q8nLDknplRbWRqkJ/view?usp=drive_link