Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] kill off PC9800 | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | 16 May 2004 16:38:24 -0500 |
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On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 16:28, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Although I like deleting things as much as the next guy :) I do have a > question, to which I haven't come up with a good answer myself: > > Should PC9800 be excised en masse, or just toss the obviously broken or > not-in-any-makefile/Kconfig pieces? > > The PC9800 net driver stuff still seems to build, and be sane.
I haven't looked at the net stuff but if it's like the SCSI stuff, it's only usable in a pc9800. The vanilla kernel currently has no way to select a pc9800 subarchitecture build.
This is a test of interest. Since the pc9800 can't build the vanilla kernel, is anyone maintaining the out of tree pieces to allow it to build, and would they take on the job of maintaining it in-tree? if no-one's interested in maintaining the pc9800 subarchitecture components, it stands to reason that no-one is going to be compiling or running the net or scsi drivers, so there's no point keeping them hanging around. Thus, if one piece goes, they all should.
James
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