AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden
… Specifically, the AMD Elan i486‑class, TSC‑less SoC for embedded systems which first launched in 1995, looks set to be retired in Linux 7.2. Similarly the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors early 2000s Elan replacements will be cut off from Linux support from Linux kernel 7.2. …
