Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping A Bunch Of Old CPUs

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Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping A Bunch Of Old CPUs
January 10, 2021
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=2021-Linux-Drop-Old-CPUs

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.

Longtime kernel developer Arnd Bergmann looked at ARM platforms that could be removed following Linux 5.10 LTS as well as other CPU architectures without any real signs of life.
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Furthermore there are some CPU platforms that are just very old and might be time to retire them:

Nothing has been firmly decided yet but this is the latest discussions. The discussion over dropping old CPU support was started Friday within Old platforms: bring out your dead.
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