Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:24:40 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@infopuls.com, alpha@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0 Message-ID: <86wtciyzg7.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <861wuq19wr.fsf@xps.des.no> (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8r?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?grav's?= message of "Fri, 19 May 2006 14:22:44 %2B0200") References: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060518101734.4036.qmail@dachs.cyberlink.ch> <20060519082621.GA736@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060519094154.GA10634@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060519111519.GA1587@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <8664k219yj.fsf@xps.des.no> <861wuq19wr.fsf@xps.des.no>
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des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes: > des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes: > > Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes: > > > There have been device drivers that have been lost in -current before > > > so it not a totally novel concept but this is the first architecture > > > to have been dropped. > > There is at least one precedent: Sparc32. > oh, and MIPS. ...which doesn't really count because it was abandoned before any of the kernel bits hit the tree, IIRC. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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