And other novelties likely next year in kernel 6.7
In a project of this ever-changing nature, driven by thousands of contributors, as new hardware support is added, support for old hardware is gradually phased out. Sometimes, that meansof hardware rather than specific devices, which can result in tens of thousands of lines of code being expunged as dozens of drivers collectively face the chop all at once.
Now that Intel's Itanium family of chips is fading into history, support for this unloved architecture in Linux is being dropped. The code wasto remove the code went through recently. In this context, IA64 denotes Itanic, not 64-bit x86, which is referred to as x86-64, AMD64, or X64 by different groups., currently at the"request for comments" stage, would remove drivers for a lot of early non-busmastering network cards, notably a dozen geriatric wireless cards.
There are a raft of other changes pending, including various improved Intel device drivers, some tweaks for handling AMD processors, and some improved Btrfs filesystem handlingMicrosoft gives unexpected tutorial on how to install Linux The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge
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