Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752045AbXBVXPF (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:15:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752049AbXBVXPE (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:15:04 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:42515 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752045AbXBVXPB (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:15:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:18:26 +0000 From: Alan To: "Michael K. Edwards" Cc: "D. Hazelton" , "David Lang" , davids@webmaster.com, "v j" , trent.waddington@gmail.com, "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , "Neil Brown" Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers Message-ID: <20070223001826.01b83cb1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <3d57814d0702191458l1021caeyaefd7775398c5f2a@mail.gmail.com> <200702212030.58317.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070222141434.3beb8a94@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1535 Lines: 35 > Oh yeah? For IRIX in 1991? Or for that matter, for Linux/ARM EABI > today? Tell me, how many of what sort of users do you support Solaris (NTL - very large ISP/Telco), Dec server 5000 (for fun), Irix (and linux cross for Irix removal), MIPS embedded (including the port to Linux of Algorithmics toolchain) for Sonix then 3COM routers. It's not a hard problem. gcc 2.x wasn't too hot on MIPS but it worked although the Irix compiler generated vastly better code (and AFAIK still does). There are folks who maintain cross devel chains for just about every Linux platform specifically for testing and while it isn't a small job they do seem to be coping quite happily. > CodeSourcery and MontaVista and Red Hat stay in business? Not with > the quality of their code or their customer service, I'll tell you > that -- although Mark Mitchell is probably the best release manager Lots of people would disagree with you about that (and independant surveys would back the disagreement), like they would disagree with you about most things. > that any GNU project has ever had. > me off, and in the meantime, you know where to find your keyboard's > "stick my fingers in my ears and shout la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you" key. > :-) I was hoping you'd take the pseudo-legal noise elsewhere. - 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/