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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, Daniel <ddickman@nyc.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: obsolete code must die
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At 12:24 AM 6/14/01 -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
>Everything you propose to get rid of are DRIVERS.  They
>do NOT complicate the core kernel, do NOT introduce bugs
>in the core kernel and have absolutely NOTHING to do with
>how simple or maintainable the core kernel is.

Not quite.  There were two non-driver suggestions that the man did 
make:  remove 386/486 support and remove floating-point emulation 
support.  Both are bad for the embedded-systems space, because the 486 is 
still used there widely.

Are all the bus support code exclusively in drivers, or is there something 
compiled into the nucleus for start-up?

I didn't see your "don't feed the troll" sign before...

Satch