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 -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020910/7f419539/attachment.pgp