Linux 7.2 has landed, dragging x86 timing clean out of the nineties by making the Time Stamp Counter mandatory.
I wrote up a quick article on why ditching those ancient legacy fallbacks is good housekeeping, plus a few other bits like cache-aware scheduling and memory tweaks worth noting.
Is anyone still using legacy hardware? If so, what do you use it for?
Utilities still use them. If it’s not broke, why fix it.
Those devices also don’t get updated, touched or fucked with. So any changes to newer kernels matter as much as as the answer to what fucking dirt taste like.
It literally doesn’t. So being mad at the removal is fucking retarded.