From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Callaway Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 17:59:11 +0000 Subject: Re: sparc sun4c support - time to drop it? Message-Id: <4FA80D6F.6040604@redhat.com> List-Id: References: <20120505162104.GA14563@merkur.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20120505162104.GA14563@merkur.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On 05/07/2012 01:46 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > There are unsuprisingly some that for sentimental > reasons would like to keep sun4c support in-kernel. > > But sun4c is outdated and if anyone want to run something > on a sun4c box the *BSD variants has better performance. > > Also considering that sun4c support has been broken for > some time and there is a few changes pending where sun4c > does not make things simpler we will drop sun4c support. I haven't powered on any of my sun4c (or older) kit in several years, so I'm also supportive of this change. ~tom = Fedora Project