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pulse Phoronix September 14, 2026

Removing Drivers For Outdated ARM Platforms Will Lighten The Kernel By ~247k Lines

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The Linux kernel is going to see the removal of a number of recently deprecated ARM 32-bit platforms. Following the deprecation in Linux 7.3, removing the old ARM platforms will lighten the kernel by around 55k lines of code. But removing now unused drivers only relevant to those platforms will mean roughly a quarter million lines of code can be removed from the kernel source tree...

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