Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:19:45 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, alpha@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0 Message-ID: <20060519131944.GA11496@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <86wtciyzg7.fsf@xps.des.no> 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> <86wtciyzg7.fsf@xps.des.no>
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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:24:40PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote.. > des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: > > des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) 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. I'm also not too sure on sparc32 in that sense? -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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