News Linux Finally Retires 23-Year-Old AMD 3DNow! Instructions

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Linux says goodbye to AMD's 3DNow! instruction set after 23 years: Version 5.17 of the kernel phases out AMD's home-brewed instruction set entirely.

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"3DNow! is finally going away on the Linux platform forever ... [if you] have any old programs that require AMD's home-brewed instruction sets, Linux 5.16 is your last stop on the upgrade train."

This is misleading; presumably userspace applications are still able to use 3DNow! instructions even though the kernel no longer uses these instructions.