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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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