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ARM Linux Maintainer Drafts Deprecation Timeline For Old Boards/Features
ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann laid out a proposal with deprecation timeline today for beginning to work toward removing many older ARM boards and obsolete features.
Following the big clean-up earlier this year to obsolete/unused ARM boards/machines and other antiquated code, Arnd Bergmann is beginning to figure out the next bits of hardware that can be deprecated and subsequently removed. The removals won't happen at least until after the Linux 6.12 cycle, which is coming up next and expected to be this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version. He's also hoping to reduce the number of board files that are carried by the kernel for non-DeviceTree platforms.
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