linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] RISC-V updates for v6.18-rc1

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Message-ID: <20251002180857.GA354523@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 14:08:57 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <pjw@...nel.org>, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] RISC-V updates for v6.18-rc1

On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 01:48:47PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> 
> We first tackled big-endian support on ARM32 nearly 15 years ago, and
> drawing on that experience, we saw value in doing the same work on RISC-V as
> a way for newer engineers to gain hands-on experience contributing in the
> open.

Given the cost to the Linux kernel ecosystem as a whole, is giving
newer engineers "practice" really worth it?  I'm not convinced it is.

> > RISC-V is enough of a mess with the millions of silly configuration
> > issues already. Don't make it even worse.
> 
> This feels like the price you pay for making a flexible and free ecosystem
> to build cores.

Just because the RISC-V ecosystem wants to have a flexible ecosystem
doesn't mean that Linux kernel ecosystem is obliged to be just as
flexible, no?

					- Ted