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From: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl
Subject: Re: [patch] kill off PC9800
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 01:16:13 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <818yfsz6sy.wl@omega.webmasters.gr.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040515232858.022abe77.akpm@osdl.org>

At Sat, 15 May 2004 23:28:58 -0700,
Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> >  PC9800 sub-arch is incomplete, hackish (at least in IDE), maintainers
> >  don't reply to emails and haven't touched it in awhile.
> 
> And the hardware is obsolete, isn't it?  Does anyone know when they were
> last manufactured, and how popular they are?

Well NEC PC9800 serires were stopped to manufacture a few years
before.  But even so, it seems there're users to use this type of
hardware.  There were one Japanese distribution which supported
PC9800.  So I wonder it should be really needed to remove.

Regards,
-- gotom


  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-16 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-16  6:21 [patch] kill off PC9800 Randy.Dunlap
2004-05-16  6:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-16 16:16   ` GOTO Masanori [this message]
2004-05-16 17:25     ` Randy.Dunlap
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-16  7:35 Norman Diamond
2004-05-16 16:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-05-17 21:38   ` Norman Diamond
2004-05-17 21:51     ` Roland Dreier
2004-05-17 21:59       ` Norman Diamond
2004-05-17 22:33         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-18  1:04         ` viro
2004-05-17 22:17       ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-05-16 17:50 James Bottomley
2004-05-16 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-16 21:28   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-16 21:38     ` James Bottomley
2004-05-17 17:15       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-18 20:14   ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-18 20:23     ` Brian Gerst
2004-05-18 20:53       ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-18 21:14         ` James Bottomley

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