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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:06:34AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Having strong, effective platform abstractions inside the kernel really helps 
> even if the hardware space itself is inevitably fragmented: both powerpc and 
> x86 has shown that. Until you realize and appreciate that you really have not 
> understood the problem i think.

No, I think it is the other way around.  Folk like me and Nicolas over
the last ten years have put considerable amounts of effort into trying
to keep the ARM support code as clean and maintainable as possible.

That is true of the common ARM stuff, but there's no way we can do this
for all SoC support - there aren't the hours in the day to provide such
a wide oversight.  That's why we have SoC maintainers, and the SoC
maintainers have the responsibility to sort out their own sub-trees.