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    SubjectRe: obsolete code must die
    On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Stephen Satchell wrote:
    > At 12:24 AM 6/14/01 -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
    > >Everything you propose to get rid of are DRIVERS. They
    > >do NOT complicate the core kernel, do NOT introduce bugs
    > >in the core kernel and have absolutely NOTHING to do with
    > >how simple or maintainable the core kernel is.
    >
    > Not quite. There were two non-driver suggestions that the man did
    > make: remove 386/486 support and remove floating-point emulation
    > support. Both are bad for the embedded-systems space, because the 486
    > is still used there widely.

    Both are waaaay outside the core of the kernel, though.

    > Are all the bus support code exclusively in drivers, or is there
    > something compiled into the nucleus for start-up?

    They're compiled into the nucleus (if you want to), but
    they're in no way clogging up the source code of the core
    kernel.

    regards,

    Rik
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