Re: [PATCH 1/2] slob: move kstrdup to lib/string.c

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 03:19:54PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Wed, Nov 02, Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> > I've always thought one of the nice points about ppc linux was that the
> > kernel just booted on your board, no matter what crazy firmware there
> > was.
> 
> I cant speak for anything else than CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM, but I bet
> almost noone really uses the boot wrapper from the kernel. An external
> mkzimage for the rest of the supported boards sounds like a good plan.
> Cant be that hard to maintain as the kernel interface is stable.
> We have such thing in opensuse, it needs an update for PReP and iSeries
> to provide the flat device tree.

That's true, but PPC_MULTIPLATFORM (in old speak) was also the boring
case.  The problem with ripping it out is there's always a reliance on
things the kernel knows anyhow (serial is here, something else we need
to kick is there, and so on).  Not that it couldn't be duplicated
elsewhere, but it would be duplication.

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Tom Rini
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