diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 045519e000b..a460c5ffc3c 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -51,11 +51,6 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
 
 ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ******************************
 
-20170304:
-	Support for i486 has been dropped from the defauilt GENERIC i386
-	kernel. Users of such old processors can still build custom kernels
-	or can upgrade the processor.
-
 20170302:
 	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0.
 	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
diff --git a/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC b/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
index 8d36c85d251..f536927fc2c 100644
--- a/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
+++ b/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #
 # $FreeBSD$
 
+cpu		I486_CPU
 cpu		I586_CPU
 cpu		I686_CPU
 ident		GENERIC