all: remove Linux 2.4 vs 2.6 detection

Linux 2.4 is dead.
(The libthread code hasn't worked for Linux 2.4 for a long time.)

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/man/man1/9c.1 b/man/man1/9c.1
index fb04a296..8d24d67d 100644
--- a/man/man1/9c.1
+++ b/man/man1/9c.1
@@ -79,9 +79,7 @@ to the include path.
 .I 9c
 also defines
 .B __sun__
-on SunOS systems and
-.B __Linux26__
-on Linux systems with 2.6-series kernels.
+on SunOS systems.
 .PP
 .I 9a
 assembles the named files into object files for the current system.
@@ -136,13 +134,13 @@ but
 always provides the following key characters:
 .TP
 .B d
-Delete 
-.I files 
+Delete
+.I files
 from the archive file.
 .TP
 .B r
 Replace
-.I files 
+.I files
 in the archive file, or add them if missing.
 .TP
 .B t
@@ -181,7 +179,7 @@ Normally
 will create a new archive when
 .I afile
 does not exist, and give a warning.
-Option 
+Option
 .B c
 discards any old contents and suppresses the warning.
 .PD
diff --git a/man/man1/install.1 b/man/man1/install.1
index be35bd35..8fcc9e41 100644
--- a/man/man1/install.1
+++ b/man/man1/install.1
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ rebuilds and installs everything, and then cleans up.
 .PP
 There are a few files in tree which have the root
 hard-coded in them.
-After the build, 
+After the build,
 .I INSTALL
 edits these files to replace the string
 .B /usr/local/plan9
@@ -71,31 +71,20 @@ expectations of certain package management systems.
 .PP
 At the end of the installation,
 .I INSTALL
-prints suggested settings for the environment variables 
+prints suggested settings for the environment variables
 .B $PLAN9
 and
 .BR $PATH .
 .PP
-Plan 9 from User Space uses different threading implementations on Linux 2.6 and
-later kernels than on 2.4 and earlier;
-and on FreeBSD 5 and later kernels than on FreeBSD 4 and earlier.
-Running binaries from one class on another will not work.
-.PP
-Some Linux 2.6 systems (e.g., Gentoo) do not use the new NPTL pthread library
-even though the kernel supports them.  On these systems, plan9port must 
-fall back on the threading code intended for Linux 2.4.  To accomplish this,
 .I INSTALL
-checks whether the running system uses NPTL and sets
-.B SYSVERSION
-in
-.B \*9/config
-accordingly.
+writes various autodetected settings to
+.BR \*9/config .
 The file
 .B \*9/LOCAL.config
 is appended to
 .B config
 after this auto-detection and can be used to override the choices.
-If 
+If
 .B LOCAL.config
 contains a line
 .B WSYSTYPE=nowsys
@@ -110,7 +99,7 @@ On Ubuntu, it suffices to install xorg-dev.
 can safely be repeated to rebuild the system from scratch.
 .PP
 Once the system is built for the first time,
-it can be maintained and rebuilt using 
+it can be maintained and rebuilt using
 .IR mk (1).
 To rebuild individual commands or libraries,
 run