Thank you for the explanation, Otto. Is this a hint that soon i386 architecture will be deprecated? Considering that supported hw (at least graphics) is going more and more to overlap with amd64, at the very end i386 would remain only for some routerboards.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 8:14 PM Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 04:55:04PM +0200, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I read from the 6.5 to 6.6 upgrade guide that the following files: > > > > > > */usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.la <http://s3_drv.la> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.so > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3virge_drv.la <http://s3virge_drv.la> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3virge_drv.so/usr/X11R6/man/man4/s3.4 > > /usr/X11R6/man/man4/s3virge.4* > > > > are being deleted as "retired". Does this mean that my IBM T23 will stop > > its X-life at 6.5 or is its S3 Virge video card supported in some other > > decent way (VESA or whatever)? I would be glad to know it *before* trying > > this upgrade. > > > > If the sad answer would be "no more support", could I ask why this, > > together with several i686 still working boxes, would be dropped while > > other OSs aren't doing so? > > > > Thanks > > > > http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/xenocara/driver/Makefile?rev=1.74&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup > > explains it: > > "Unlink a number of old video drivers from the build. > > The corresponding hardware is out of date, barely useable > with modern systems and their code is not maintained. > ok sthen@" > > We have a very limited numnbers of volunteers. In general, code is a > liability, not an asset. What other OS maintainers do is their choice. > > -Otto >
