From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:00:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:59:55 -0400 Received: from smtp3.cern.ch ([137.138.131.164]:43718 "EHLO smtp3.cern.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:59:39 -0400 To: Tom Rini Cc: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Will 2.6 require Python for any configuration ? (CML2) In-Reply-To: <20010823143443.F14302@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> From: Jes Sorensen Date: 24 Aug 2001 14:59:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: Tom Rini's message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:34:43 -0700" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Rini writes: Tom> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:18:02AM +0400, Samium Gromoff wrote: >> but imagine the X arch hacker does not like python, and >> nevertheless needs to port it on arch X. still fun? Tom> Well I know python is endian-clean. I'd suspect it's even Tom> 32/64bit clean. So it's not a matter of 'port' but compile. And Tom> Linus has done things which have made lots of kernel hackers Tom> scratch their head for a while. (Jump out of this fire and into Tom> the min/max macros in 2.4.9 fire to see what I mean). Again, please try and do real porting work before you make such silly statements. Perl is 32/64 little/big-endian clean ... and still it's the absolutely worst app to bring up (even X tends to be easier). There is a lot more to this than meets the eye! Jes