Re: sparc sun4c support - time to drop it?

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Hi David,

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:16 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 09:07:34 +1000
>
>> Would it be possible to hide sun4c away behind a kconfig variable
>> that is marked as BROKEN with a entry in the feature-removal file?
>>
>> Or is that just too much work for code which has been broken for a long time.
>
> We just want to kill all of this code off, there is zero value keeping
> it around at all.
>
> It's in the revision history if you just want to look at it, and
> nobody is going to make changes that try to keep it working so letting
> this stuff linger has zero value.

I figured that would be the consensus.

I have no objection to annihilating the code - I just don't like
seeing code being thrown away.

Thanks,

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