Re: obsolete code must die

Mike A. Harris (mharris@opensourceadvocate.org)
Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:57:01 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Daniel wrote:

>i386, i486
>The Pentium processor has been around since 1995. Support for these older
>processors should go so we can focus on optimizations for the pentium and
>better processors.
[SNIP]

Boy, if this isn't a troll, I don't know what is. Obviously
someone doesn't grok the kernel development processes very well.
Newbie here?

One needn't even *be* a kernel hacker to understand why all of
the stuff stated is totally not going to happen, and there would
be no benefit to doing so.

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