How long will using Linux58 kernel remain viable as it is now EOL?

After last update I upgraded to Linux59 kernel - black screen and no Manjaro.
I’ve gone back to Linux58 successfully but wondering how long Linux58 will remain available to use?

System:
  Kernel: 5.8.18-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64 
  root=UUID=dd05ea3d-aabb-48d3-b4bc-163ab73937f0 rw quiet 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.2 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: N/A v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
  type: 3 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: G1.Sniper 3 serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends 
  v: F7 date: 08/23/2012 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-3770K bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21 
  L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 55888 
  Speed: 1597 MHz min/max: 1600/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1596 2: 1597 
  3: 1596 4: 1597 5: 1597 6: 2139 7: 2010 8: 1597 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] vendor: Gigabyte GV-N105TOC-4GD 
  driver: nvidia v: 440.100 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 04:00.0 
  chip ID: 10de:1c82 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: nvidia 
  display ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 101 s-size: 483x272mm (19.0x10.7") 
  s-diag: 554mm (21.8") 
  Monitor-1: DVI-D-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102 
  size: 477x268mm (18.8x10.6") diag: 547mm (21.5") 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.100 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fb9 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.18-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579V Gigabit Network vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e 
  v: 3.2.6-k port: f040 bus ID: 00:19.0 chip ID: 8086:1503 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: alx v: kernel port: b000 bus ID: 09:00.0 chip ID: 1969:e091 
  IF: enp9s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 68.38 GiB (7.3%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102 size: 931.51 GiB 
  block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC43 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 931.31 GiB size: 915.70 GiB (98.32%) 
  used: 68.38 GiB (7.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 45 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0% 
Info:
  Processes: 213 Uptime: 24m Memory: 15.60 GiB used: 1.69 GiB (10.8%) 
  Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 10.0.1 Packages: 
  pacman: 1422 lib: 411 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole 
  inxi: 3.1.08

If it is business as usual - when a kernel is EOL on kernel.org the kernel source will receive no further updates - it becomes frozen.

You could add the kernel and the kernel modules to pacman.conf to be ignored on syncronization.

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Thanks @linux-aarhus.

Dont we need the 450 gpu driver for 5.9 kernel
or is/was that cuda related?

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