Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch fromkernel.
From: Richard B. Johnson
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 10:19:57 EST
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Renate Meijer wrote:
On Apr 1, 2005, at 3:09 PM, linux-os wrote:
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Cruel joke. Now 80 percent of the Intel clones won't boot.
Those are the ones that run industry, you know, the stuff that
is necessary to earn money.
Without i386 support, you don't have any embedded systems. You
need to use the garbage Motorola CPUs and the proprietary
operating systems in embedded stuff.
Have you checked your calender yet?
Besides... Never heard of ARM? Atmel has a complete line of those,
which seem very usefull.
I'm quite aware of the date and time, thank you. The 'i386 architecture
is the Intel-like stuff that doesn't have all the newer gee-whiz
things that are of little value in the embedded area.
And, ARM is an exploded-cost over-hyped RISC device with poor I/O
capability that assumes that the world is interfaced in 32-bit
chunks. It also can't take advantage of the cost economies that
you get from the devices used in the PC mass-market like
memory-controllers, PCI-IO bridges and etc.
Although these are used in the new "high-definition" TVs I
can assure you that there are many more PC components being
manufactured now than high-definition TV sets. Eventually,
the ARM, or something that supersedes it might make sense.
Right not, forget it.
So, basically, you guys think you can single-handedly
remove Linux from the embedded market and re-do it just
for servers? Or are you going to leave some capability
for desk-tops, too?
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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