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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-02-09 23:08:53 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-02-09 23:08:53 -0800 |
| commit | e88bb41595ad67a8e7d5dd8c7bbeea2e66cc0cac (patch) | |
| tree | 02508471125ea1c13d0c09652b23fb302c87b35f /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
| parent | 344e53f562e21ab14734a482042713555a628d39 (diff) | |
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[SPARC]: Add solaris/sunos binary support to feature removal schedule.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index ce9503c892b5..2039f47f2e65 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -304,3 +304,14 @@ Why: The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainabilit and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware are not provided by Broadcom anymore. Who: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: Solaris/SunOS syscall and binary support on Sparc +When: 2.6.26 +Why: Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused. File system + layering used to divert library and dynamic linker searches to + /usr/gnemul is extremely buggy and unfixable. Making it work + is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most + trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code. +Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |