[EXT] Re: [PATCH] Remove Solaris/PowerPC support

Rainer Orth ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Tue Sep 16 08:01:39 GMT 2025


Hi Peter,

> On 9/15/25 8:13 PM, Alan Modra wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:56:34AM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>> Solaris/PowerPC was a shortlived Solaris port with limited hardware
>>> support.  It was released with Solaris 2.5.1 back in 1996, with support
>>> removed again only a year later in Solaris 2.6.  Since this is long
>>> obsolete, this patch removes the remains of the support.
>> 
>> I'll OK this patch.
>
> Removing dead and unused code is always appreciated.

my pleasure.  I just stumbled across those relics repeatedly when
checking the various config*.* files for Solaris-specific snippets.

	Rainer

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