Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:07:11 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <20070405180711.GA60539@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0704050839g7b873dabw5a5e211140781781@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <ef10de9a0704050839g7b873dabw5a5e211140781781@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:39:41AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 4/5/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > >[-stable removed since it's not relevant there] > > > >On 2007-Apr-05 04:58:17 -0500, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@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. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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