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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2006 15:19:45 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@infopuls.com, alpha@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0
Message-ID:  <20060519131944.GA11496@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <86wtciyzg7.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060518101734.4036.qmail@dachs.cyberlink.ch> <20060519082621.GA736@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060519094154.GA10634@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060519111519.GA1587@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <8664k219yj.fsf@xps.des.no> <861wuq19wr.fsf@xps.des.no> <86wtciyzg7.fsf@xps.des.no>

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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:24:40PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote..
> des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
> > des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
> > > Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
> > > > There have been device drivers that have been lost in -current before
> > > > so it not a totally novel concept but this is the first architecture
> > > > to have been dropped.
> > > There is at least one precedent: Sparc32.
> > oh, and MIPS.
> 
> ...which doesn't really count because it was abandoned before any of
> the kernel bits hit the tree, IIRC.

I'm also not too sure on sparc32 in that sense?

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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