12 Jan
2021
12 Jan
'21
10:24 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:34:33 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'With Linux 5.10 having shipped as the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release to be maintained for at least the next five years, a discussion has begun over dropping a number of old and obsolete CPU platform support currently found within the mainline kernel.'
The article linked to <https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=2021-Linux-Drop-Old-CPUs> gives an amazingly long list, most of which are ARM variants. Further down, there are also some miscellaneous flavours of SPARC, PowerPC, M68K, Alpha, Itanium and x86, among others.