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SubjectRe: [PATCH: NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR 2.5] support for NCR voyager 343x/345x/4100/51xx architecture
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riel@conectiva.com.br said:
> One thing which worries me is that the number of these machines is
> very small, so the code could temporarily go the way the SGI visws
> code went.

> It would be nice if this code was split out in such a way that it
> won't have any impact on the maintainability of the mainstream code,
> so even if the voyager folks go on holiday, normal Linux development
> can continue and the resulting bitrot will be limited to just the
> voyager code.

I would like to do this. I didn't do it for the 2.4 series because such a
patch would have been very difficult to maintain. I'll see if I can separate
the VISW code as well.

James


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