Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel.

["Richard B. Johnson" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-1] M�ns Rullg�rd wrote:

> linux-os <linux-os@analogic.com> 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.

You get rid of that capability just because you don't
__like__ i386???  Did you ever have a job?


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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