Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping a Bunch of Old CPUs

'Charlotte Web writes: 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. For many of the architectures being considered for removal they haven't seen any new commits in years but as is the case once proposals are made for them to be removed there are often passionate users wanting the support to be kept.' -- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/21/01/11/187220 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 577-5304 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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.
participants (2)
-
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
-
Peter Reutemann