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AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support


Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors.

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