Re: 2.6.3-rc3-mm1

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> >
> > > - Dropped the x86 CPU-type selection patches
> > 
> >  Was there a problem with this? Seems like a good start to allow cleaning 
> >  up some "but I don't have that CPU" things which embedded and tiny 
> >  systems really would like to eliminate.
> 
> I think it was a good change, and was appropriate to 2.5.x.  But for 2.6.x
> the benefit didn't seem to justify the depth of the change.

And will it be appropriate for 2.7? It really does give a start to
trimming code you don't want in a small kernel, and would have been nice
so people could use it for any processor specific additions to 2.6.

Not arguing, but it was a step to improve control of creeping unnecessary
archetecture support.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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