On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:31, Nicolas Pitre <n...@fluxnic.net> 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
--
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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
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