On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 11:16:28AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > We removed support for the HP-UX OS in v16, but left in support > for the PA-RISC architecture, mainly because I thought that its > spinlock mechanism is weird enough to be a good stress test > for our spinlock infrastructure. It still is that, but my > one remaining HPPA machine has gone to the great recycle heap > in the sky. There seems little point in keeping around nominal > support for an architecture that we can't test and no one is > using anymore. > > Hence, the attached removes the remaining support for HPPA. > Any objections?
I wouldn't do this. NetBSD/hppa still claims to exist, as does the OpenBSD equivalent. I presume its pkgsrc compiles this code. The code is basically zero-maintenance, so there's not much to gain from deleting it preemptively.
