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PowerPC 40x Processor Support To Be Dropped From The Linux Kernel


In addition to Linux 6.10 expected to drop support for very old DEC Alpha processors (EV5 and earlier), it looks like the PowerPC 40x (early PowerPC 400 series) processor and platform support will be retired too.

Back in 2020 was a proposal for dropping PowerPC 40x support from the Linux kernel given that the code was orphaned for a long time with no apparent users. Ellerman explained in the patch series:"The 40x platforms & CPUs are old and have been unmaintained for years, and as far as we can tell have no users. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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