{
  "id": 11187022,
  "title": "Clearing Out Linux's Old 32-bit ARM Platform Code Is Itself A Challenge",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/clearing-out-linuxs-old-32-bit-arm-platform-code-is-itself-a-challenge",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-01T12:04:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clearing-Old-ARM-Code-Challenge"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Longtime ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann over the past year has been working to clear out a number of old ARM platforms from the mainline kernel tree. With Linux 7.3 many older 32-bit ARM platforms were deprecated and in turn hundreds of kernel drivers orphaned. Now it's on to removing that actual code, which given the amount of entangled code, is itself a challenge...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}