From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261900AbUERBEZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 21:04:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261918AbUERBEZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 21:04:25 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:56253 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261900AbUERBEX (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 21:04:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 02:04:19 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Norman Diamond Cc: Roland Dreier , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] kill off PC9800 Message-ID: <20040518010419.GX17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <5265auu3i1.fsf@topspin.com> <05af01c43c5a$786e6340$b7ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <05af01c43c5a$786e6340$b7ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 06:59:49AM +0900, Norman Diamond wrote: > Do you realize that Apple's market share is still less than NEC's? And if > you want to go back 10 years, NEC had about 90% of the PC market and they > were all 9800 series. So are you volunteering to maintain the port? Maintainers are MIA; the damn thing doesn't compile; all patches it gets are basically blind ones ("we have that API change, this ought to take care of those drivers and let's hope that possible mistakes will be caught by testers"). Considering the lack of testers (kinda hard to test something that refuses to build), the above actually spells in one word: "bitrot". Either somebody shows up and takes over the damn thing, or it's just a dead weight that could as well be left in linux-2.6.6.tar.bz2 on kernel.org and not propagated any further. If at some later point somebody will decide to resurrected, they can always pick it from said tarball.