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Unexpected 2025 Flashback: New Linux Patches For AMD's ARM-Based Opteron A1100 "Seattle"


A new set of patches hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today may cause some flashbacks and likely not on your 2025 bingo card..

While entering "mass production" in 2016, the AMD Opteron A1100 Seattle was cancelled shortly thereafter without really penetrating the market and suffered from problems like broken PCI Express. Arm software engineer and Linux kernel developer Rob Herring sent out a set of patches for the AMD Seattle DT updates. Today's AMD Seattle patch series amount to around 100 lines of DT fixes to clean things up with no real improvement for (any?)

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