From e88bb41595ad67a8e7d5dd8c7bbeea2e66cc0cac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 23:08:53 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [SPARC]: Add solaris/sunos binary support to feature removal schedule. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) 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> -- GitLab