3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
8:45 p.m.
On 6/3/2013 8:11 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
From the discussions, it was just easier. i386 support
could have been
slowly moved off to a sub-arch, but it is /always/ far easier to delete
lines of code than to re-engineer existing code. Hell, if the rt-linux
code can be merged into the mainline kernel (which Linus was originally
very much against), there is just no excuse for removing i386 support. I
seem to remember similar discussions re SMP and bigmem, too...
Why did real UNIX never get out the the unwashed masses?