along withLinux Kernel 7.0With the release of , the open source community is celebrating one of the longest-lived and most successful pieces of hardware in PC history—Intel 440BXChipset officially says goodbye. In the 7.0 kernel code update, the developers completely removed the 440BX's EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) driver, not temporarily disabled it. This means that modern Linux systems will no longer provide official support for this "living fossil" from the 1990s.
The Intel 440BX chipset was born in 1998, nearly 30 years ago. This is a classic chipset specially built for Pentium II and Pentium III processors. It can be called the "golden partner" of the Pentium era.For the first time, it increased the system bus frequency (FSB) from 66MHz to 100MHz, which resulted in a qualitative leap in the computing efficiency of the entire computer. The 100MHz bus frequency has been used since the 1990s.
This chipset also leads DIY to a new era.Many players use it to significantly overclock the classic "Celeron 300A" or "Pentium III", and the overclocked system is extremely stable.
Intel 440BX not only dominated the physical host market for many years, but in the early days of the rise of virtualization technology, it was often used as an analog chipset for virtual machine platforms such as VMware. However, with the popularity of more modern analog architectures such as the Q35, the point of maintaining this outdated code no longer exists.
