From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 18:18:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA4A16A40A for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:18:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD1613C455 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:18:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-10-135.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.10.135]:54801 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HZWMb-0007HK-5r for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:07:15 +0200 Received: (qmail 95785 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2007 20:07:11 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 5 Apr 2007 20:07:11 +0200 Received: (qmail 60582 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Apr 2007 20:07:11 +0200 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:07:11 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20070405180711.GA60539@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Nikolas Britton , Peter Jeremy , FreeBSD Current References: <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HZWMb-0007HK-5r. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HZWMb-0007HK-5r 1c752fbc62481fde2c426f4a32b55558 Cc: Peter Jeremy , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:18:43 -0000 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:39:41AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 4/5/07, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >[-stable removed since it's not relevant there] > > > >On 2007-Apr-05 04:58:17 -0500, Nikolas Britton > >wrote: > >>Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT? > >> > >>legacyfree1# cd dev/ > >>legacyfree1# grep -irsn isa ./ | grep -i include > >... > >>legacyfree1# grep -irsn mca ./ | grep -i include > >... > > > >Why do you believe anything in the list might need to be removed? > > > > I'd like to also add that 6-STABLE should be the last branch to support: > 1. ISA / EISA > 2. PC98 Platform. > 3. i486 > 4. i586 I strongly disagree. There is no good reason to drop support for those. (Or if there is nobody has explained it yet.) > > 98.83% of us have at least a i686 and 62.6% of us have at least a i786 > (SSE2) processor. And 73.45% of all statistics are mainly made up of hot air. > > Arch Break Down > i386 5586 94.02% > amd64 305 5.13% > sparc64 30 0.50% > > x86 Break Down: > i486 30 0.074% > ??? 51 0.125% > i586 404 0.995% > i686 14724 36.230% > i786 25431 62.576% > ----------------------------------- > Tot: 40640 100% > > data provided by bsdstats.org What makes you think those stats are even half-way accurate or useful. It is probably a highly biased sample. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se