Reply to post: Re: And so fairwell blackfin, cris, frv, m32r, metag, mn10300, score, and tile.

Linux 4.16 arrives, keeps melting Meltdown, preps to axe eight CPUs

dgc03052

Re: And so fairwell blackfin, cris, frv, m32r, metag, mn10300, score, and tile.

>>One wonders why Linux was ever ported to them in the first place

>Porting Linux is something you can do to prove it actually works.

Exactly - same reason I once worked on a port of X-Windows to the write-only frame buffer of the F22 Cockpit display subsystem.

Although it really sucked if the login prompt showed up while flying the full-up simulator...

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