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From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0
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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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