Re: Do these packages belong?
On 15 Jul 1998, James Troup wrote:
> defrag has hardcoded asm in it; if someone uploaded a deb for alpha,
> they presumably replaced that with alpha asm or C.
Hmmm...yeah, that would break it. If Redhat had a package for defrag on
the Alpha, the code was probably borrowed from that. Since nobody has
used it that I know of, though, I would personally play it safe and remove
it (don't wanna risk running it here, that's for sure).
> fdflush is only
> needed for i386 because only i386 suffers from that kind of floppy
> brain damage; according to Wichert anyways.
It's possible that the Alphas have the same problem since alot of Alphas
use the same controller chips that the PCs use, but I'm not sure what
kinda dain bramage that the PCs have, so....another one that probably
could come out.
> qcam cameras attach
> through the parallel port, IIRC, do Alpha's support PC hardware that
> attaches in that fashion?
This one should probably stay. We do have PC-style hardware that's
pin-compatible and supported by the kernel. AFAIK also, I believe that
the ports are addressed the same way as on the PC (only fixes needed would
be 64-bitness).
I'd keep qcam and oust the rest, personally.
C
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