On Tue 2012-11-20 19:47:58, Vineet Gupta wrote: > On Tuesday 20 November 2012 07:29 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Tue 2012-11-20 14:47:37, Pavel Machek wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >>> https://raw.github.com/vineetgarc/publish/master/ELCE-2012-ARC-Linux.pdf > >>> > >>> All comments/criticisms are welcome ! > >> Huh. arch/arc is very similar to arch/arm. So similar that it took me > >> 10 minutes to figure out. I guess theres no alternate name arc could > >> use? > > Hmm... "Advanced Risc"... :-(. > > > > Ok, plus there's already computing standard called "arc". > > > > https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/ARC > > > > What about calling the architecture "sarc" or "syarc" ? > > I think it would be best use of everybody's time if you could focus on > the technical content of the port rather than the name. It has been like > that for +10 years and I don't intend to make the kernel port name > different from THE arch name itself. Yeah, and it is best use of reviewers time to confuse them with one-letter difference to very popular architecture... and use three letter acronym that was already taken. In this state, I hope your port never gets merged. Yes, I got used to do cd a<tab>/ar<tab>. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
