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authorThomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>2006-03-19 19:31:16 +0000
committerThomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>2009-06-18 00:26:36 +0200
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parentac066e39f2dab1c3d01fadce2de0e3dbd19dcb73 (diff)
2006-03-19 Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>
* DEVELOPMENT: Document the FIPC removal. 2006-03-19 Leonardo Lopes Pereira <leonardolopespereira@gmail.com> Remove unused and unsuported code. Consult the file `DEVELOPMENT' for details. * ipc/fipc.c: Remove file. * ipc/fipc.h: Likewise. * Makefile.in (ipc-cfiles): Remove `fipc.c'. (ipc-files): Remove `fipc.h'. * device/device_init.c [FIPC]: Remove code. * device/net_io.c [FIPC]: Likewise. * include/mach/syscall_sw.h [FIPC]: Likewise. * kern/syscall_sw.c [FIPC]: Likewise.
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`gnumach-1-branch-before_removing_unused_and_unsupported_code' was tagged
on 2006-02-20. After creating that tag, code for unused and unsupported
device driver for ISA cards and a good deal of i386 dependent, also
-unused and unsupported code was removed. Be sure to check the ChangeLog
-and have a look at the repository at that tag's state if you want to work
-on the i386 dependent parts of GNU Mach.
+unused and unsupported code was removed.
+
+On 2006-03-19, support was removed for FIPC, which only ever was used
+within the native Mach NE2000 NIC device driver, see
+<URL:http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/mach4-i386/html/mach4-UK22.html#FIPC>.
+
+Be sure to check the ChangeLog and have a look at the repository at that
+tag's state if you want to work on those parts of GNU Mach.