Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758049AbXISVde (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:33:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751743AbXISVd0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:33:26 -0400 Received: from outbound-blu.frontbridge.com ([65.55.251.16]:30635 "EHLO outbound3-blu-R.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751387AbXISVd0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:33:26 -0400 X-BigFish: VP X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 160.33.66.75;Service: EHS Message-ID: <46F194D5.9050800@am.sony.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:29:57 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: Andi Kleen , linux kernel , linux-tiny , CE Linux Developers List , Michael Opdenacker , john cooper , Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival References: <46F1645D.9050406@am.sony.com> <46F17B54.6070106@am.sony.com> <12631.1190234722@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <12631.1190234722@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Sep 2007 21:30:25.0074 (UTC) FILETIME=[4A717920:01C7FB04] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 990 Lines: 24 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:41:08 PDT, Tim Bird said: >> The patchkit gives a place for things to live while they are out >> of mainline, and still have multiple people use and work on them. > > Is anybody working on testing that the patchkit "does no harm" for bigger > boxes (laptops, desktops, servers)? Not to my knowledge. Most of the things it provides are only activated by config options. So my sense is that just applying the patches should be harmless. But we'll need some runtime testing to see what affect some of these have on big iron. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= - 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/