News [Phoronix] Linux 7.2 Drops Driver For The 40+ Year Old Hercules Monochrome ISA Graphics Card

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After Linux 7.1 dropped support for old i486 CPUs and also began removing some old ISA and PCMCIA device drivers, there is some additional old hardware relics being cleared out of the in-development Linux 7.2 driver... The frame-buffer device driver for the old Hercules Monochrome ISA graphics card is now removed from the Linux kernel after decades at play...

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Hercules-Mono-ISA

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