Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Feb 1998 16:14:43 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: GGI, EGCS/PGCC, Kernel source |
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On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Peter-Paul Witta wrote: > > hi! > 1.) when will the kernel-source be PGCC-ready, i.e., when will those PGCC > patches be supplied?
The question is rather: - When will pgcc/egcs/gcc-2.8.x work according to the documentation? Right now I think that egcs is probably fairly close, although I don't know whether it is stable.
At least I am not aware of _any_ issues in the 2.1.x kernel wrt compilers: I have not a single report of a problem that cannot be attributed to the compiler rather than the kernel so far. (This does not mean that there can't be any kernel problems, but it _does_ mean that I don't know of them).
(There is a 2.0.x kernel problem that is known and fixed in 2.1.x, which makes me think that it is a non-issue: if you are willing to test untested compilers on your kernels you might as well be willing to run a 2.1.x kernel in the first place).
> 2.) is there any movement to include GGI into the kernel distribution? if > not, why not? is it *bad code* (tm) ?
It's not a question of good or bad code, it's a question of what it buys, and whether people are using it and whether it can be considered stable and generic enough to warrant inclusion in the standard kernel. So far I haven't heard enough of people using it to even consider it.
Linus
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