"Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-1] M�ns Rullg�rd wrote: > >> linux-os <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> [PATCH snipped] >>> >>> Cruel joke. Now 80 percent of the Intel clones won't boot. >>> Those are the ones that run industry, you know, the stuff that >>> is necessary to earn money. >> >> For now, yes. Hopefully it will change some day. >> >>> Without i386 support, you don't have any embedded systems. You >>> need to use the garbage Motorola CPUs and the proprietary >>> operating systems in embedded stuff. >> >> In front me at the moment are two embedded devices, one PPC based, the >> other MIPS, both running Linux. > > You can't be serious. Software doesn't get the opportunity > to select the hardware. With Linux on PC-like machines, we > have been able to write and debug 90 or more percent of the > software on our work-stations before embedding it in the > target machines.
The point being? > You get rid of that capability just because you don't > __like__ i386??? What capability? That of running Linux on embedded PPC and MIPS? You're not making sense, even as an April Fool's joke. > Did you ever have a job? How is that relevant? -- M�ns Rullg�rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
