Post #18699

📰 Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Elan-Linux-Driver-Removal #amd#intel#kernel#linux