From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272126AbTHDSwI (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:52:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272135AbTHDSwG (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:52:06 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:54145 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272126AbTHDSvJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:51:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:45:46 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Cc: davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: milstone reached: ia64 linux builds out of Linus' tree Message-Id: <20030804114546.10786f84.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <16174.43161.252794.244789@napali.hpl.hp.com> References: <200308041737.h74HbdCf015443@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20030804113144.47fcc112.davem@redhat.com> <16174.43161.252794.244789@napali.hpl.hp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:40:25 -0700 David Mosberger wrote: > For what it's worth, I spend on average about 1 day a week on ia64 > linux maintenance and that's just about as much as I'd want to (though > in recent months it has been a bit more, partly so that we can get > into sync with Linus' tree). I'm not addressing you specifically, but I will note how great you tend to say ia64 is when platform performance comparison discussions happen on the lists :-) In general, I think some platform maintainence drifts way too easily into a tail-spin of local changes that take forever to get merged. 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 :)