Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751377AbWH1GAY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:00:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751387AbWH1GAY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:00:24 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:63898 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751377AbWH1GAY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:00:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:56:12 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Chris Wedgwood cc: Paul Mackerras , Dong Feng , ak@suse.de, Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent? In-Reply-To: <20060828051409.GA17891@tuatara.stupidest.org> Message-ID: References: <17650.13915.413019.784343@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20060828051409.GA17891@tuatara.stupidest.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 888 Lines: 23 > >The i386 is older than some of the kernel hackers, and given that a >modern kernel is pretty painful with less than say 16MB or RAM in >practice I have to concur. (Sure, you can't get a reasonable system to work on 16MB, but the kernel is fine with 5 megs of RAM. In fact, ancient i386 boxes usually do not have "big" things like SCSI, USB or Audio.) >, I don't see that it would be all that terrible to drop >support for ancient CPUs at some point (yes, I know some newer >embedded (and similar) CPUs might be affected here too, but surely not >that many that people really use --- and they could just use 2.4.x). Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/