On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 06:01:36PM +0200, Brendan Le Foll wrote: > On 13 August 2010 17:53, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:37:04PM +0200, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote: > >> Foster, Dawn M a écrit : > >> >On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:42 AM, David Greaves wrote: > >> >This is the way open source projects are supposed to work. The > >> >people who start the project pick a manageable set of hardware to > >> >get us started just like when Linus only supported 386 with AT > >> >drives in the first version of the Linux kernel because that's > >> >what he was using at the time[1]. [1] > >> >http://www.linux.org/people/linus_post.html > >> > >> Sorry, but this argument is completely wrong: At the time Linus > >> started Linux, porting to other hardware was a hug task that > >> involved years of work. Today, every large distribution routinely > >> build generic i686 build. Why not Meego ? > > > > Speed. Seriously, go measure it with it turned off, it is very > > noticable. And on these tiny netbooks, you need all the speed you can > > get. > > > > There's a reason MeeGo is the fastest booting and running of _all_ > > distros out there at the moment, and this is one of them. > > > >> What really block you to do things that all others do easily for > >> years ? Just Start a OBS target with generic compiler flags, end of > >> the story. > > > > Exactly, everyone is free to do that, so what's the big deal? Or are > > you wanting someone else to do this for you? > > > > confused as to the whining, > > I guess people want the official OBS to have the generic i686 target > so it becomes a supported Architecture.
Are you willing to "support" it? If so, great, but note that "supported" means a lot here... good luck, greg k-h _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
