Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:38:41 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: Removing support for SimOS Message-ID: <XFMail.20030225133841.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3E59272E.83E8072D@mindspring.com>
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On 23-Feb-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 02:20:27AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > I'm just wondering why you are removing support for something that >> > apparently works, to make it not work? >> >> It already doesn't work and there's no indication that there's an >> interest in making it work again. In the mean time it's preventing >> LINT from linking and thus is getting in the way. > > OK, so someone made a commit that broke LINT because it failed to > maintain the SIMOS #ifdef'ed code. > > This makes a lot more sense to remove it, then (but reverting the > commit that caused it to break also makes sense, to me...). You'd need to update the simos.c driver to use new-bus, etc. If someone wants to fix it, they can always get it out of the Attic. If no one wants to maintain it, then it can rot just as easily in the Attic as in the tree. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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