Just a quick reminder: NetBSD still has it and will very likely in the foreseeable future
It makes more sense to do this in a major upgrade like from kernel 6 to 7 but some cleanup is good.
major upgrade like from kernel 6 to 7
What do you mean? The Linux kernel doesn't follow SemVer.
The 6.19 -> 7.0 version bump didn't have any more inherent meaning than 7.0 -> 7.1 or 7.1 -> 7.2.
Yay, reduced functionality 🥳
My man were talking about hardware from like the 90s lol. Linux is amazing on keeping old hardware going, but even it has to move on at some point.
I'm sure you'll be devastated to learn that Linux stopped supporting the i386 in 2012.
Virtually nobody is going to run kernel 7.2 on a 90s CPU without a time stamp chip. Its good practice to prune old and largely unused features once and a while
You know, Windows98 is still available
on archive.org
Yup. Linux isn't what it used to be anymore.
What are you using the old x86 timing functionality for, or rather what would it be needed for?
Time to ask for a refund of the 0 money you paid to use it.
That's not an individual problem, but you liberals only work in an individual and monetary logic. The Evil Empire's propaganda is efficient.
You're right, it's way better.
You make it sound like no one can just go keep the older hardware alive by forking.
The fairy tale of fork freedom, just the fairy tale of market freedom.
Y'all are really pathetic.
I'm not what I used to be
"downvotes won't change the reality, corpo boot lickers
This happens every time I point put that losing these "old" kernel capabilities is in fact a loss.
Let them be stupid about it, all the code still exists to undo these bad decisions one day. It'll just be more work than it would otherwise be to fix what they broke.
I put them in the same category as AI sycophants, they can't see three feet beyond their own nose.
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