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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:        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
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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