Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:14:05 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: linux-next requirements |
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* Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > - and without burdening developers to consider cases they have no good > > ways to test. Why should rare architectures be more important than those > > other rare forms of Linux usage? > > Because the Linus' tree is supposed to build on those architectures. [...]
That's not actually true: Linus on multiple occasions has said that only the major architectures (x86, powerpc, ARM and a few others) are 'required' to build and that the others should be left to fail to build and should be _forced to get their act together_.
> [...] As long as that's the case, linux-next should build on them too.
No, and IMO linux-next is clearly over-interpreting this bit. Linux is not supposed to build on all architectures. Maybe that's a core bit of a misunderstanding (on either my or on sfr's side) and it should be clarified ...
Ingo
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