Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution) | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:08:08 +0100 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> said:
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> It's not that hard. Given Giacomo's table of probes it only took me about > two days to get it 85% of the way there. The remaining 15% is partly > issues with rulebase bugs that it exposes, and partly issues with what > to do about the possibility of ISA hardware that is not directly > probeable.
Ever heard of "90% done, the remaining 10% will take the other 90% of the effort"? Just as predicted, a long way back... then comes a two or three year shakedown to get it reliable enough for real use. -- Horst von Brand http://counter.li.org # 22616 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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