Re: [Syllable-kernel] upcoming Syllable patches..

[Daniel G. <da...@fp...>]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 22:19 +1300, Maritimus wrote:

> > >Otherwise, it's probably never going to get fixed.
> > And I think that=E2=80=99s the best.
>=20
> But why not? It's just some lines of code, it isn't of any disadvantage t=
o the system, it's just like removing a minor bug that stops someone's vide=
o card from working.
>=20

Because it's extra code that has to be read and maintained, it causes
complexity to conditionaly compile it, it causes complexity to
distribute it (now we need two sets of kernel downloads), it will be
almost never tested (I have no 486's, and I wouldn't run Syllable on
them even if I did).

I vote no on 486.  It lowers the least common denominator for basically
no benifit.

Daniel