Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932281Ab1CaFpz (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:45:55 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:35384 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755303Ab1CaFpy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:45:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=S8cbuzTwFgiTAIK3F6dz9DGNcv9e7WXq2nmX48LSgxCO6v9UBmaCKBm2gcoLSF3fhk 2+NVS40MYH2qodZdABDhD4xdCH1tedWpjDhepIz32KSPAxdCgtCzDqX0E3OaKp+LBIr0 w9Jk44Q8vJ+FgKujV/O0B99VdGC2BL4wa3JWk= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20110317183048.GW7258@atomide.com> <20110318101512.GA15375@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <201103301906.42429.arnd@arndb.de> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:45:53 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: JysmV3u193r51pHDm1bIxeID3eY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Linus Torvalds , Arnd Bergmann , Russell King - ARM Linux , Tony Lindgren , David Brown , lkml , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1496 Lines: 33 On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:31, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> The long-term situation should be that you should be able to have ONE >> binary kernel "just work". That's where we are on x86. Really. > > But X86 is peanuts.  Really.  There was one machine called the IBM PC at > some point that everybody cloned, and the rest was totally irrelevant. > Then came that thing called Windows that reinforced this hardware > monoculture as it was used for the ultimate conformance testing.  This > is damn easy in that case to produce a kernel that works virtually > everywhere. > > On ARM there is simply not such thing as a single machine design to > clone, and a closed source test bench to design for. There are other architectures that didn't start from a single root platform, but still support multi-platform kernels. Gr{oetje,eeting}s,                         Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.                                 -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/