linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimZ8+npVu6u5-o9+3CV40wB_GYwiOWvfJPso8G0@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:45:53 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:31, Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> The long-term situation should be that you should be able to have ONE
>> binary kernel "just work". That's where we are on x86. Really.
>
> But X86 is peanuts.  Really.  There was one machine called the IBM PC at
> some point that everybody cloned, and the rest was totally irrelevant.
> Then came that thing called Windows that reinforced this hardware
> monoculture as it was used for the ultimate conformance testing.  This
> is damn easy in that case to produce a kernel that works virtually
> everywhere.
>
> On ARM there is simply not such thing as a single machine design to
> clone, and a closed source test bench to design for.

There are other architectures that didn't start from a single root platform,
but still support multi-platform kernels.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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