From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: milstone reached: ia64 linux builds out of Linus' tree
Date: 04 Aug 2003 20:07:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060024077.719.26.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030804114546.10786f84.davem@redhat.com>
On Llu, 2003-08-04 at 19:45, David S. Miller wrote:
> My point was that if some random single monkey like me can keep a
> loser platform like sparc64 still building in Linus's tree, a group of
> several trained professionals should be able to fare much better :)
Right but ia64 - for better or worse started off as a hideously
divergent tree that did really stupid things like redefine GFP_DMA. It
may be that ia64 should have aimed in a different direction from day one
but having finally ended up in the right place *is* a milestone.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-04 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-04 17:37 David Mosberger
2003-08-04 17:53 ` H. J. Lu
2003-08-04 18:00 ` Jesse Barnes
2003-08-04 18:10 ` H. J. Lu
2003-08-04 18:52 ` Jesse Barnes
2003-08-04 19:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-08-04 18:27 ` David Mosberger
2003-08-04 18:49 ` Jesse Barnes
2003-08-04 18:21 ` David Mosberger
2003-08-04 18:41 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-04 18:31 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-04 18:40 ` David Mosberger
2003-08-04 18:45 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-04 19:07 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-08-04 19:17 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-04 23:06 ` Peter Chubb
2003-08-04 23:35 ` David Mosberger
2003-08-13 0:07 ` Ian Wienand
2003-09-10 0:53 ` Ian Wienand
2003-09-10 1:57 ` David Mosberger
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