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Linux kernel drops support for AMD's pioneering K5 processor

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AMD's K5 processor, its first independently designed chip from 1996, will lose support in the Linux kernel with version 7.2. This removal is due to the K5's lack of Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, which developers find burdensome to maintain. Other older processors, including the AMD Elan and Geode, are also being retired from Linux support in the same update. AI

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IMPACT Minimal direct impact on AI operations; concerns older hardware support in operating systems.

RANK_REASON Removal of legacy hardware support from an open-source operating system kernel. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=2 ai=0.1]

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Linux kernel drops support for AMD's pioneering K5 processor

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  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 · Mark Tyson ·

    AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden

    AMD’s landmark K5 processor family will no longer be supported by Linux when kernel version 7.2 arrives.

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lac

    AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden AMD’s landmark K5 processor family will no longer be supp…

    LINKS tomshardware.com/…/amds-legendary-k5-its-…

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