Berita Dukungan CPU Lama Dihapus di LinuX Kernel 4.17

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Keputusan untuk menghapus beberapa jenis CPU lama dari kernel Linux sudah diaplikasikan pada versi 4.17. Hasilnya kode linux kernel telah menghemat sekitar 500.000 baris.
CPU yang dicabut dukungannya adalah Blackfin, CRIS, FRV, M32R, Metag, MN10300, Score dan Tile. Dengan pengurangan dukungan dan penghapusan kode ini maka, ukuran kernel akan mengecil dan akan lebih optimal.


berita lengkap :

The Linux kernel maintainers have taken the decision to go ahead with dropping support for old CPU architectures in an upcoming release. As a result, Linux 4.17 kernel will ship with a whopping 500,000 fewer lines of code – currently it contains around 20.3 million lines of code, according to Linux Counter.

The architectures which will become deprecated are Blackfin, CRIS, FRV, M32R, Metag, MN10300, Score and Tile. Although not being deprecated, the Unicore32 and Hexagon architectures are also at risk but their maintainers are working on improving the situation so their support can be continued.

Killing off support for these architectures is beneficial for a few reasons, it’ll reduce the size of the kernel and it could also reduce the amount of attack vectors within the kernel if there were any bugs lurking.

sumber :

https://www.neowin.net/news/old-cpus-losing-support-in-linux-cutting-size-by-500000-lines-of-code