On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 12:12:24PM -0500, Shawn wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:11:20 -0600 (CST)
> Brian <lxy at cloudnet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yes and no.  Let's say I have my m68k Mac chugging along, but I need
> > some of the new Reiser stuff.  What am I supposed to do?  What if they
> > stopped developing today for m68k, and 3 months from now a much needed
> > patch came out.  Am I hosed?
> > 
> There's enough people out there who would probably run across this
> issue as well, and those who code would come up with a fix.
> 
> > At the same time, I'd like it if the kernel came in an x86 only
> > package, so I didn't have to download the
> > RISC/S390/AS400/Sparc/Amiga/PPC/... just to build an x86 kernel (most
> > users would want this).  Seems kinda silly to unpack megs of useless
> > code.
> > 
> This is kind of what I was trying to mention.  Make a specific kernel
> port for each processor type:  Alpha, Sparc, PA-RISC, Intel x86, Athlon,
> Mac, etc.  Might be more work,

Willing to volunteer for that work?

>                                but I think the benefits would be better
> off rather than jumbling everything into one thing.

Please list some benefits.

>                                                      Also, you could
> probably have a lot better legacy support for each specific processor
> port type I'd think.

How?

florin

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