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Let’s see how Debian maintainers deals with it.
I use to give very old hardware a second life for people in need around where I live.
That includes most of which was moved to Amber and in some case, something that got unsupported.
I believe Debian is pretty much never on the latest kernel, their priority is stability and not having the latest everything, so you should be good for a while.
Worst case scenario, you can still recompile the kernel with those drivers put back in, I guess.
Aging hardware (not limited to graphics cards) will be plagued by this and by :
1_ Moist corrosion (dry place please)
2_ Heat activated diffusion (heat sink)
3_ Random small levels of gamma radiation (error correction with redundance)
Fight against entropy never ends
I don’t know much about GPUs. For a second I thought they meant Rx 200 series (my R9 290 still works really well)
The Radeon R200 series is from 2001 - 2004.
R100 was released in 2000. Are people still using those?
Plenty of people do for retro gaming/emulation.