Re: [patch] kill off PC9800

From: James Bottomley (James.Bottomley_at_steeleye.com)
Date: 05/16/04

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    To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date:	16 May 2004 16:38:24 -0500

    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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