From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:30:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:30:20 -0500 Received: from pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk ([195.188.53.122]:55556 "EHLO blueyonder.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:30:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:34:52 +0000 From: Ian Molton To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: dalecki@evision-ventures.com Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin Message-Id: <20020131133452.6963ff23.spyro@armlinux.org> In-Reply-To: <3C59353F.3080208@evision-ventures.com> In-Reply-To: <3C59353F.3080208@evision-ventures.com> Reply-To: spyro@armlinux.org Organization: The dragon roost X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On a sunny Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:14:55 +0100 Martin Dalecki gathered a sheaf of electrons and etched in their motions the following immortal words: > Old obsolete drivers used by some > computer since archeologists should be killed (Atari, Amiga, support, > obsolete drivers and so on). > Just let *them* maintains theyr separate kernel tree... Yeah, keep linux for those X86 purists. Great philosophy. Just because hardware is OLD doesnt mean it cant integrate fairly cleanly with the current linux kernel. Why shouldnt Linux run on my 15 year old Acorn A400 (my current project) ? Linux is about FUN.