From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:57:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:57:20 -0400 Received: from femail3.rdc1.on.home.com ([24.2.9.90]:30858 "EHLO femail3.rdc1.on.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:57:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:57:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike A. Harris" X-X-Sender: To: Daniel cc: Linux kernel Subject: Re: obsolete code must die In-Reply-To: <01a401c0f46b$20b932e0$480e6c42@almlba4sy7xn6x> Message-ID: X-Unexpected-Header: The Spanish Inquisition X-Spam-To: uce@ftc.gov Copyright: Copyright 2001 by Mike A. Harris - All rights reserved MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Daniel wrote: >i386, i486 >The Pentium processor has been around since 1995. Support for these older >processors should go so we can focus on optimizations for the pentium and >better processors. [SNIP] Boy, if this isn't a troll, I don't know what is. Obviously someone doesn't grok the kernel development processes very well. Newbie here? One needn't even *be* a kernel hacker to understand why all of the stuff stated is totally not going to happen, and there would be no benefit to doing so. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris - Linux advocate - Open Source advocate Opinions and viewpoints expressed are solely my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Foot and mouth disease is believed by experts to be the first virus that is unable to spread via Microsoft Outlook.