linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86 old platform removal for v3.15

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Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 2014 04:57:46 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	mdr@....com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>, pazke@...pac.ru,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 old platform removal for v3.15

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:01:00AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:52 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > David Rientjes (2):
> >       x86, apic: Remove support for ia32-based Unisys ES7000
> >       x86, apic: Remove support for IBM Summit/EXA chipset
> >
> > H. Peter Anvin (2):
> >       x86, platforms: Remove SGI Visual Workstation
> >       x86, platforms: Remove NUMAQ
> 
> Nice try on April the 1st! Nobody's gonna notice ;-)

No April fools in NUMAQ -- I gave it my Acked-by some time back.  ;-)

But yes, I don't know of anyone still running recent Linux on one of
those 15-year-old NUMAQ boxes, which by today's standards are old, slow,
and power-hungry.

							Thanx, Paul

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                 -- Linus Torvalds
> 

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