[Arm-netbook] Linus wingeing about ARM

Henrik Nordström henrik at henriknordstrom.net
Fri Oct 12 07:50:01 BST 2012


ons 2012-10-10 klockan 18:14 +0100 skrev luke.leighton:

>  naah.  i don't believe it.  it still doesn't solve the issue of
> having to compile code to suit a particular pipeline architecture, and
> it doesn't even begin to solve the diversity of hard-coded devices
> (and neither does devicetree - devicetree just moves the problem into
> devicetree files).

It's not a magical solution, but a huge step forward. The change is on
very many levels including a massive tree reorganisation to make it more
maintainable and strongly pushing developers into not duplicating code
for different SoCs sharing the same or similar IP blocks.

Regards
Henrik




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