The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers

MDKAOD@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix

Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca · edit-2 1 year ago

So much for the legendary hardware support of Linux!

Edit: Forgot “/s”, but look at this lively discussion!

Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Lol you haven’t upgraded your GPU since the late 90’s?

db2@sopuli.xyz · 1 year ago

You know there’s a whole hobby of keeping older hardware running, right?

Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 year ago

If only they contributed to the kernel maintenance workload.

Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml · edit-2 1 year ago

You know that you can use older versions of the Linux kernel, right?

db2@sopuli.xyz · 1 year ago

You know security vulnerabilities are a thing, right?

Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

I know what you mean, I’m so pissed that my 1978 Space Invaders arcade machine doesn’t even support WiFi-6.

axum@kbin.social · 1 year ago

You’re free to use legacy kernels or run your own fork.