Re: [PATCH net v2 10/15] drivers: net: cirrus: mac89x0: Remove this driver

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2026-04-23T09:28:22Z

Hi Daniel,

On Thu, 2026-04-23 at 17:52 +0900, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 at 16:10, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > > Macs do run modern kernels.
> >
> > Retrocomputing still is not well regarded by some maintainers, it seems :-(.
>
> I've found bugs in drivers by plugging those things into exotic
> hardware like my Amiga 4000 and Ultra5 [0].
> So, it's not totally pointless. And having a shader capable Amiga[1]
> is pretty cool.

Not only that. Those exotic architectures also help iron out generic kernel
bugs and give new maintainers an possibility to get their feet wet.

> Sad to see fun stuff getting pushed out by basically spam bots. :(

It's not so much pushed out by spam bots but by the commercialization of the
Linux kernel. Many developers think that the sole purpose of the Linux kernel
is to run on modern commodity hardware.

Adrian

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