From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262960AbUEWPSu (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 11:18:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262963AbUEWPSt (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 11:18:49 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:26579 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262960AbUEWPSs (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 11:18:48 -0400 Message-ID: <40B0C0C7.9090604@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:18:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau CC: Christoph Hellwig , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua Subject: Re: i486 emu in mainline? References: <20040522234059.GA3735@infradead.org> <20040523082912.GA16071@alpha.home.local> In-Reply-To: <20040523082912.GA16071@alpha.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Willy Tarreau wrote: > - There are people (like Alan) who think that this should not go into > mainline because this is a distro problem and nothing else. He says > that only i386 packages should be installed on an i386 machine. He's > perfectly right about this. I found it interesting for people like I disagree. I want to add "old Alpha" emulation code, so that older Alphas can run binaries built on the newer alphas. Jeff