More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 "Niagara 2" SPU Driver Slated For Removal

[phoronix]

Phoronix: More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 "Niagara 2" SPU Driver Slated For Removal

Following 107k lines of old driver code within the staging area of the kernel removed for Linux 6.13, over in the crypto space they are looking at some cleaning as well with plans raised to remove the Stream Processing Unit (SPU) driver for the old Sun Niagara 2, the Sun UltraSPARC T2 and this SPU was also found in the UltraSPARC T3 as well...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niagara-2-SPU-Driver-Bitrot

[rabcor]

No! don't remove it! I'm still using it!

[V1tol]

No! don't remove it! I'm still using it!

Oh dear, now you are doomed to use 6.12 LTS (or less) forever on 2007 hardware.

[rabcor]

Oh dear, now you are doomed to use 6.12 LTS (or less) forever on 2007 hardware.

Well I suppose it's a good thing then that I'm not really using it.

[Gamer1227]

Well I suppose it's a good thing then that I'm not really using it.

Assuming fhe driver even works.

[sophisticles]

Very shocking to learn that a Linux driver was/is broken.

[osw89]

Very shocking to learn that a Linux driver was/is broken.

"Irrelevant piece of obscure hardware was not supported and no one cared including the manufacturer of said hardware? What an opportunity to suck off my corporate masters."
At least the homeless guy under a bridge charges 10$, you do it for free.

[mxan]

T2SDE guy coming to hawk his distro for ancient hardware in 3,2,1...

[erniv2]

When i read this the 1st question is what is an SPU.

SPU – Wikipedia

Is it a Sound Processing Unit, Socialistic Party Ukraine.

Then i think what is sparc SPARC-Architektur – Wikipedia.

Ah ok cool Ultrasparc 2t was cool 2007, just let it die allready ...., just let it go and remove all those macros and tricks for some old rotten stuff from the kernel.

Focus on the modern stuff arm64 risc-v x86-64.

[Quackdoc]

No! don't remove it! I'm still using it!

no worries, rene will support you xD