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The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix(www.phoronix.com)

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so any remaining users have a few more years to get a new graphics card.

Anyone running a Voodoo is doing so because they want to. Dropping support is bullshit.

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bruhduh@lemmy.world
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Driver code is still there, you can add it back if you want, same with ide drivers and such, support was removed but code still exists, just add it and compile your own kernel, there are alot of tutorials in internet about it

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db2@sopuli.xyz
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Go add a 2.4 era driver to a modern kernel and see how that goes.

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bruhduh@lemmy.world
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Then support will be until 2033 when 6.1 slts support will end

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fornax@feddit.nl
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The drivers were removed in 6.3. Debian 12 is still running on 6.1. Debian 12 just came out and still has many years of support ahead of it (at least 5). You can get plenty of use out of these cards before they stop working.

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db2@sopuli.xyz
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But they’ll stop working due to artificial causes.

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rasensprenger@feddit.de
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Someone needs to maintain them for them to keep working. Nobody else is willing to do that anymore, but you can still volunteer as a maintainer. If you don’t, it’s as much your fault as anyone elses.

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kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
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Oh no, the kernel will lose a whopping 200k SLOC!

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pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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Out of 27 million lines of code.

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Killing_Spark@feddit.de
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Which makes it 1% total. Which is a lot for one single change

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