On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:47:50PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > Sigh. Andy did; I didn't. I completely missed that he clearly excluded > embedded platforms from his original comments.
np. > I *do* think it's a useful datapoint to note that sun2, pmax, algor, etc. > are never, ever downloaded any more. Right, and these dead ports must be euthanized. The mountain of unused device drivers and core kernel code is a signficant hinderance to people working in the kernel. Random example: I had to abandon two paid efforts last year because I ran out of time owing to the huge amount of MD code, a lot of which is unused. That was TNF's money and my time down the toilet, and we missed out on multithreaded ttys and audio drivers (and a bucketload of bugfixes along with both).