Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262766AbVDAPik (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:38:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262775AbVDAPfo (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:35:44 -0500 Received: from alog0177.analogic.com ([208.224.220.192]:34963 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262766AbVDAPeO (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:34:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:33:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: dtor_core@ameritech.net cc: Renate Meijer , Evgeniy Polyakov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <11123574931907@2ka.mipt.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1696 Lines: 49 On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 1, 2005 10:16 AM, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Renate Meijer wrote: >> >>> >>> On Apr 1, 2005, at 3:09 PM, linux-os wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> [PATCH snipped] >>>> >>>> Cruel joke. Now 80 percent of the Intel clones won't boot. >>>> Those are the ones that run industry, you know, the stuff that >>>> is necessary to earn money. >>>> >>>> Without i386 support, you don't have any embedded systems. You >>>> need to use the garbage Motorola CPUs and the proprietary >>>> operating systems in embedded stuff. >>> >>> Have you checked your calender yet? >>> >> I'm quite aware of the date and time, thank you. The 'i386 architecture >> is the Intel-like stuff that doesn't have all the newer gee-whiz >> things that are of little value in the embedded area. > ... >> So, basically, you guys think you can single-handedly >> remove Linux from the embedded market and re-do it just >> for servers? Or are you going to leave some capability >> for desk-tops, too? > > Please check the calendar again. Don't worry about the year part, > concentrate on the month and day... ;) > > -- > Dmitry > Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ..... **** APRIL Fool-I-am-one **** Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.11 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/