Re: [GIT]: Sparc

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, David Miller wrote:
> 
> This performs the scheduled removal of Solaris and SunOS
> system call for sparc, much to the chagrin of Al Viro
> and others :-) (in particular, that asm/namei.h crud can
> now die)

Hmm. I think this is sad. The fact is, Solaris/SunOS is the de-facto 
standard for Sparc. Which makes me think that not emulating them is a real 
capability loss. 

I realize that the code may be painful, but still...

		Linus
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