From: Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:41:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301067716.2053.6.camel@ayu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1103241929450.16085@x980>
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 19:49 -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> > > Microsoft was able to delete APM from Windows in 2006
> > > with the release of Windows Vista. [...]
> >
> > Does Windows XP still support it?
>
> yes, and so does Red Hat Linux 9.
> > While i'm not a fan of APM at all, this removal is a tad fast IMHO.
> >
> > Beyond the lack of a upstream-visible feature-removal-schedule entry, we still
> > have an Arcnet driver which hardware was obsoleted by Ethernet in the late 80s,
> > and we still have i486 support and those are *much* older than APM.
>
> How would you like to write i486 specific code for the latest kernel
> and test it on i486 hardware, honestly?
Hmm, that reminds me: I should try a newer kernel on my 486 some time,
it's still running 2.6.25. I'm actually quite honestly surprised that
the modern libata drivers include code for and fully support my old
vesa-bus IDE controller! (X has been less friendly, they dropped support
for the graphics chipset during the Xfree86 4 development--but I mostly
use this box headless.)
--
Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-25 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <alpine.LFD.2.02.1103232321070.3848@x980>
[not found] ` <20110324154505.934a56a0.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2011-03-24 7:39 ` [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40 Len Brown
2011-03-24 8:16 ` [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support Len Brown
2011-03-24 8:31 ` [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support (v2) Len Brown
2011-03-24 16:01 ` Andi Kleen
2011-03-24 8:39 ` [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 23:49 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 11:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 12:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 12:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 22:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-26 4:35 ` Len Brown
2011-04-08 6:25 ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-08 20:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-11 13:05 ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-11 18:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-13 13:30 ` Pavel Machek
2011-03-26 5:01 ` Len Brown
2011-03-26 9:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-27 21:40 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-03-28 4:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-28 5:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-28 12:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-28 5:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 15:41 ` Calvin Walton [this message]
2011-03-24 8:18 ` [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40 Stephen Rothwell
2011-03-24 8:38 ` Alexander Stein
2011-03-24 10:21 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-03-24 23:05 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 1:07 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-03-25 1:34 ` Len Brown
2011-04-04 16:44 ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-04 20:18 ` Len Brown
2011-03-24 12:15 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-03-24 23:29 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 8:07 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-03-26 5:09 ` Len Brown
2011-04-02 21:40 ` Yuhong Bao
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