On Thu May 8 07:59:12 EDT 2014, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > We are losing the 'reference implementation' from which the branches can be > > compared. > > But is this a necessary consequemce of Bell Labs' distance, or merely > the way the community operates? A reference point need not itself be > in use by all involved, it just needs to move slowly enough for a few > responsible parties to ensure that it remains a reference point. Give > 9atom x 2 and 9front (in whichever guise), together with the ARM > implementations (which I believe are much closer to the Bell Labs > release), it is not that onerous to make sure that there is a base > point for everyone out there.
since it's not clear to me from reading this (forgive my reading comprehension), i run 9atom on rb, kw, and rpi in addition to amd64. i run the pc and pcpae kernels when there are changes. i know others also run 9atom on the rb. sadly i don't have a teg2 or original beagle. - erik
