From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263664AbUEPQQQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 May 2004 12:16:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263665AbUEPQQP (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 May 2004 12:16:15 -0400 Received: from omega.webmasters.gr.jp ([218.44.239.78]:20698 "EHLO webmasters.gr.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263664AbUEPQQO (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 May 2004 12:16:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 01:16:13 +0900 Message-ID: <818yfsz6sy.wl@omega.webmasters.gr.jp> From: GOTO Masanori To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl Subject: Re: [patch] kill off PC9800 In-Reply-To: <20040515232858.022abe77.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20040515232155.134a76be.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20040515232858.022abe77.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.9.9 (Unchained Melody) SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.3 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Unebigory=F2mae?=) APEL/10.3 Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At Sat, 15 May 2004 23:28:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Randy.Dunlap" 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 And the hardware is obsolete, isn't it?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