Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] kill off PC9800 | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | 16 May 2004 12:50:37 -0500 |
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Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote: > > PC9800 sub-arch is incomplete, hackish (at least in IDE), maintainers > don't reply to emails and haven't touched it in awhile. And the hardware is obsolete, isn't it? Does anyone know when they were last manufactured, and how popular they are? Hey, just being obsolete is no grounds for eliminating a subarchitecture...
However, I would have to say that being unmaintained is. Because of the penchant of x86 people to go "it compiles on my PC, ship it", the x86 subarchitectures are about the fastest bitrotting pieces of the kernel there are.
Since mach-pc9800 cannot currently be compiled and there's no evidence that it actually was, I'd remove it unless someone steps up quickly to maintain it (and get it to the point where it's actually compileable).
James
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