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Please don't! Thanks for chiming in. Does your statement above apply to all 3 drivers? > > We're still maintaining an active sparc64 port for Debian, see [1]. So > does Gentoo [2]. > >> In a recent patch series that touched these drivers [1], it was suggested >> that these drivers should be removed completely. git logs suggest that >> there hasn't been any significant feature addition, improvement or fixes >> to user-visible bugs in a while. A web search didn't indicate any recent >> discussions or any evidence that there are users out there who care about >> these drivers. > > Well, these drivers just work and I don't see why there should be regular > discussions about them or changes. That's fair, but lack of discussion can also be signs of disuse, and that's really the hunch I was following up on. Given what you and Karl have said, I agree that we shouldn't remove these drivers. I'll stop pursuing this unless there are new arguments to the contrary. Ani