Do we need this junk?
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Thu Apr 5 18:18:43 UTC 2007
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:39:41AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> >[-stable removed since it's not relevant there]
> >
> >On 2007-Apr-05 04:58:17 -0500, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >>Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT?
> >>
> >>legacyfree1# cd dev/
> >>legacyfree1# grep -irsn isa ./ | grep -i include
> >...
> >>legacyfree1# grep -irsn mca ./ | grep -i include
> >...
> >
> >Why do you believe anything in the list might need to be removed?
> >
>
> I'd like to also add that 6-STABLE should be the last branch to support:
> 1. ISA / EISA
> 2. PC98 Platform.
> 3. i486
> 4. i586
I strongly disagree. There is no good reason to drop support for those.
(Or if there is nobody has explained it yet.)
>
> 98.83% of us have at least a i686 and 62.6% of us have at least a i786
> (SSE2) processor.
And 73.45% of all statistics are mainly made up of hot air.
>
> Arch Break Down
> i386 5586 94.02%
> amd64 305 5.13%
> sparc64 30 0.50%
>
> x86 Break Down:
> i486 30 0.074%
> ??? 51 0.125%
> i586 404 0.995%
> i686 14724 36.230%
> i786 25431 62.576%
> -----------------------------------
> Tot: 40640 100%
>
> data provided by bsdstats.org
What makes you think those stats are even half-way accurate or
useful. It is probably a highly biased sample.
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013 at student.uu.se
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