Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262771AbVDAQBL (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:01:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262773AbVDAQBL (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:01:11 -0500 Received: from 76.80-203-227.nextgentel.com ([80.203.227.76]:52191 "EHLO mail.inprovide.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262771AbVDAQBI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:01:08 -0500 To: linux-os@analogic.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel. References: <11123574931907@2ka.mipt.ru> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:01:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Richard B. Johnson's message of "Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:22:18 -0500 (EST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1498 Lines: 47 "Richard B. Johnson" writes: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-1] M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > >> linux-os writes: >> >>> [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. >> >> For now, yes. Hopefully it will change some day. >> >>> 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. >> >> In front me at the moment are two embedded devices, one PPC based, the >> other MIPS, both running Linux. > > You can't be serious. Software doesn't get the opportunity > to select the hardware. With Linux on PC-like machines, we > have been able to write and debug 90 or more percent of the > software on our work-stations before embedding it in the > target machines. The point being? > You get rid of that capability just because you don't > __like__ i386??? What capability? That of running Linux on embedded PPC and MIPS? You're not making sense, even as an April Fool's joke. > Did you ever have a job? How is that relevant? -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@inprovide.com - 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/