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Intel Thunder Bay is officially canceled, Linux driver code to be removed

by nippoo on 3/19/23, 9:54 AM with 51 comments

• by beebeepka on 3/21/23, 11:51 PM

  In other intel news, Raja is no longer with them. Seems like he was forced out and some of the rumours about the bleak future of their consumer GPU business may turn out to be true

• by neom on 3/22/23, 10:19 AM

  Weird I was born in Thunder Bay, thought maybe they were opening a plant there that got cancelled. Wonder why they called it Thunder Bay Harbor, especially because Thunder Bay is a harbor town...

• by DeathArrow on 3/22/23, 11:17 AM

  Thunder Bay went to play with Larabee between the stars.

• by stonogo on 3/21/23, 10:48 PM

  Why do the kernel developers allow corporations to shove code into the tree for hardware nobody has? Google does this too: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

  I get that the corporations employ the maintainers of this code, but if that person quits or the company discontinues a product, now we're left with useless crap in the kernel. Why can't these companies just build their own modules? Why is it everyone else's problem?