From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
        Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>,
        richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011091654030.2995-100000@elte.hu>
Organisation: SAP LinuxLab
Date: 10 Nov 2000 09:42:30 +0100
In-Reply-To: Ingo Molnar's message of "Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:03:12 +0100 (CET)"
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Hi Ingo,

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
>> smart about that stuff, are least it seems so to me; he seems to be
>> well aware that 99.9999% of the hardware in the world isn't big
>> iron and never will be, so something approximating 99% of the
>> effort should be going towards the common platforms, not the
>> uncommon ones.
> 
> yep, this is true. Still Linux appears to perform remarkably well on
> so-called 'big iron'.

Thanks Ingo, I agree to this and also agree that we should try to be
able to run (mostly) everything from the same code base and I think
that's Linux does a great job on this.

Having a seperated code base for 0.0001% of mission critical servers
will lead to very bad availability or very high development cost at
least. In the worst (and not so unprobable) case it will lead to a lot
of games with licenses and 'intellectual property'. This would mean
that Linux fails to deliver on its promises IMHO.

Greetings
		Christoph
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