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Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs
In just the latest instance, one of the upstream Intel Linux kernel drivers is now "orphaned" due to the developer departing and no one experienced left to maintain the code. He is currently the maintainer of the nifty In-Field Scan(IFS) driver for use with recent Intel Xeon processors for testing for silicon defects. Slim Bootloader has always been interesting from a technical and open-source perspective albeit not as much attention drawn to it in recent times and now with the latest Intel cost cutting we'll see what happens.
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