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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

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AMD’s landmark K5 processor family will no longer be supported by Linux when kernel version 7.2 arrives.

AMD’s landmark K5 processor family will no longer be supported by Linux when kernel version 7.2 arrives.

AMD’s landmark K5 processor family will no longer be supported by Linux when kernel version 7.2 arrives.

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