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Phoronix Reports Linux x86 32-Bit Kernel Code Being Cleaned Up
According to Phoronix, patches for the Linux kernel's x86 32-bit code are cleaning up old code after vintage processors were recently removed from support.
What Phoronix reports
Phoronix reports that work on the x86 32-bit portion of the Linux kernel is removing older code. The report links this clean-up to the recent removal of vintage processors, the general-purpose chips at the centre of a computer.
What remains unclear
The available facts come from a single outlet, Phoronix, so the account has not been independently confirmed. They do not describe the individual patches, the code they touch or whether the changes have been merged into a mainline release.
Open questions
- Which specific code paths do the patches remove?
- Have the patches been merged into a mainline kernel release?