linux-kernel - Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

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Date:   Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:47:53 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:     Gerhard Pircher <gerhard_pircher@....net>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        Sparc kernel list <sparclinux@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 4:47 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 1/11/21 4:04 PM, Gerhard Pircher wrote:

> There has to be a healthy balance between hobbyist and commercial use. I understand
> that from a commercial point of view, it doesn't make much sense to run Linux
> on a 30-year-old computer.

I have another impression (depending on what you put under "commercial use").
Industrial requirements are to support for 15+ (in some cases 30+)
years for hardware. I'm quite sure they don't want to have completely
outdated software there either.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko