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🪆 Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs

ï½¢ Back in 2024, various kernel maintainers were removed due to their association to Russia on grounds of compliance requirements. That included some of the Russian Linux developers working on the Baikal CPU support.

But due to sanctions they weren't able to get their chips manufactured by TSMC and ultimately Baikal Electronics entered bankruptcy ï½£

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Baikal-CPUs

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Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs

Beyond Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support, this next Linux kernel version is also beginning to remove driver code for supporting Russia's Baikal CPUs.

Apr 17 at 5:00pmWeb
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@jbz there were devs banned for simply having .ru emails even though they didn't live in russia nor have any obvious association with the russian government. this is just racism with extra steps.