Re: [GIT PULL] x86 old platform removal for v3.15

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Apr 02 2014 - 07:58:03 EST


On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:01:00AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:52 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > David Rientjes (2):
> > x86, apic: Remove support for ia32-based Unisys ES7000
> > x86, apic: Remove support for IBM Summit/EXA chipset
> >
> > H. Peter Anvin (2):
> > x86, platforms: Remove SGI Visual Workstation
> > x86, platforms: Remove NUMAQ
>
> Nice try on April the 1st! Nobody's gonna notice ;-)

No April fools in NUMAQ -- I gave it my Acked-by some time back. ;-)

But yes, I don't know of anyone still running recent Linux on one of
those 15-year-old NUMAQ boxes, which by today's standards are old, slow,
and power-hungry.

Thanx, Paul

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
>

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