From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:19:54 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: 2.6.3-rc3-mm1 In-Reply-To: <20040216095411.1592d09d.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > Bill Davidsen 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 CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org