On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 08:03 +0000, Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 03:46 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 08:41 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > > > wrote: > > [...] > > > > > In future all ARM kernels should be multi-platform, but I expect there > > > > will still be different flavours, such as for LPAE or the RT featureset. > > > > I would much prefer a name that will provide a more useful distinction > > > > in future (and not be too long!). Perhaps it should refer to the CPU > > > > requirement like the flavours for some other architectures. > > > > > > I see. Although it is very simple, how is "armmp"? > > [...] > > > > Sounds alright to be, but let's allow the other ARM porters a few more > > days to comment. > > 'MP' has some history as meaning multi-processor, so might be confusing. > (But perhaps not confusing to many.)
All multi-platform configurations will have to be multi-processor as well, so that shouldn't matter too much. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ... and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds
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