Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:01:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: nikolas.britton@gmail.com Cc: peterjeremy@optushome.com.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <20070405.140109.39240822.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0704050839g7b873dabw5a5e211140781781@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <ef10de9a0704050839g7b873dabw5a5e211140781781@mail.gmail.com>
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From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 10:39:41 -0500 > On 4/5/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > > [-stable removed since it's not relevant there] > > > > On 2007-Apr-05 04:58:17 -0500, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> 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 Not going to happen. Maybe EISA, but certainly not ISA, as machines made today still need it. > 2. PC98 Platform. What do you care? I mean really, what do you care here. There are Pentium II class machines that are perfectly good in this class of machines. I have one and it runs just fine. > 3. i486 So you want to kill all the soekris boxes? Sorry, not going to happen. > 4. i586 These machines still work, and are still popular in the embedded space due to their lower power consumption. Warner
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