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Linux Looks To Drop Support For IBM Cell Blade Servers
The latest house cleaning of the Linux kernel is looking to drop support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those platforms from the better part of two decades ago with Cell BE processors that also had worked their way into some supercomputers at the time.
But there are no major users of Cell Blades left that are running upstream Linux kernels and even the Linux kernel developers involved are no longer hanging onto the hardware or beginning to run into the hardware failing. Thus with the upstream kernel developers/maintainers losing the ability to test new patches/kernel on the hardware, it looks like support for the Cell Blades will be retired. Michael Ellerman sent out the set of 25 patches that would remove support for IBM Cell Blades from the mainline kernel.
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