Re: Do we need this junk?

From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013_at_student.uu.se>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:07:11 +0200
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:39:41AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy_at_optushome.com.au> wrote:
> >[-stable removed since it's not relevant there]
> >
> >On 2007-Apr-05 04:58:17 -0500, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton_at_gmail.com> 
> >wrote:
> >>Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT?
> >>
> >>legacyfree1# cd dev/
> >>legacyfree1# grep -irsn isa ./ | grep -i include
> >...
> >>legacyfree1# grep -irsn mca ./ | grep -i include
> >...
> >
> >Why do you believe anything in the list might need to be removed?
> >
> 
> I'd like to also add that 6-STABLE should be the last branch to support:
> 1. ISA / EISA
> 2. PC98 Platform.
> 3. i486
> 4. i586

I strongly disagree.  There is no good reason to drop support for those.
(Or if there is nobody has explained it yet.)


> 
> 98.83% of us have at least a i686 and 62.6% of us have at least a i786
> (SSE2) processor.

And 73.45% of all statistics are mainly made up of hot air.

> 
> Arch Break Down
> i386             5586     94.02%
> amd64 	        305       5.13%
> sparc64           30       0.50%
> 
> x86 Break Down:
> i486	30           0.074%
> ??? 	51           0.125%
> i586	404         0.995%
> i686	14724	 36.230%
> i786	25431	 62.576%
> -----------------------------------
> Tot:	40640	100%
> 
> data provided by bsdstats.org

What makes you think those stats are even half-way accurate or
useful.  It is probably a highly biased sample.


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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013_at_student.uu.se
Received on Thu Apr 05 2007 - 16:18:43 UTC

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