Re: [PATCH] remove dead PC9800 IDE support

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Sat, 15 May 2004 22:23:47 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:

| On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:32:20PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| > On Tue, 4 May 2004 01:35:14 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
| > 
| > | 
| > | It was added in 2.5.66 but PC9800 subarch is still non-buildable.
| > | Also this is one big hack and only half-merged.
| > | 
| > 
| > It's fairly simple to make it buildable, but it's still a hack
| > that no one seems to want to support, so I agree, kill it.
| > 
| > Can we kill the rest of it too?
| 
| What's the opinion of the PC-9800 people regarding this issue?
| 
| Is there any work done now or in the near future on the PC-9800 port?

We haven't heard from them.  I have written email to them a few
times (2 or 3), but they haven't replied.

The current PC-9800 implementation is only 1/2 done, and IDE
is very hackish, according to Bart.

And currently X86_PC9800 cannot be selected at all (it's not
there!), so people cannot attempt to build/fix it either
(without fixing that, which I have done, but I don't think it's
worth submitting that patch).

--
~Randy