On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:07 PM Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:51 PM Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 08:56:23AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
While we are at it, can we also remove the 601 ? This one is also full of workarounds and diverges a bit from other 6xx.
I'm unable to find its end of life date, but it was on the market in 1994, so I guess it must be outdated by more than 10-15 yr old now ?
There probably are still some people running Linux on 601 powermacs.
It could be marked as "BROKEN" for a year to find out for sure ;-)
Apparently there were only two or three models that are old enough to have a 601 and new enough to run Linux with PCI and OF: 7200/8200 and 7500. These were sold for less than 18 months around 1996, though one can still find them on eBay.
A. Wilcox said on IRC regarding 601 support in Adélie Linux:
"right now we are primarily targeting G3, though 603 should be supported. 601/601e support is planned to be added for 2.0 (next year)."
Arnd