"Richard B. Johnson" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-1] Måns Rullgård wrote:
>
>> linux-os <[email protected]> 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?
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Måns Rullgård
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