* Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]> wrote:
> We just did the exercise with sparc/sparc64 unification and if you
> forget the few times I broke sparc32 then it went well with only limited
> problems.
We also had the x86 unification finished in the past year which went very
well too, so i can only encourage similar efforts.
> One key factor why it went well was that patches were reviewed and
> applied within a few days whch is why I stresses that the maintainer
> needs spare time to support the effort.
Yes.
Unification is the Linux meme of the century i guess ;-)
There's two main unification themes:
- per arch unification (x86, powerpc, sparc
- cross-arch unification: the moving of useful stuff out of architectures
into the core kernel (genirq, gtod, etc.).
Ingo
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