On Thu, 7 Apr 2022, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/7/22 09:17, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 11:25 PM Rob Landley wrote:
I'm interested in H8300 because it's a tiny architecture (under 6k
lines total, in 93 files) and thus a good way to see what a minimal
Linux port looks like. If somebody would like to suggest a different
one for that...
Anything that is maintained is usually a better example, and it helps
when the code is not old enough to have accumulated a lot of historic
baggage.
But if it's not a lot of code, would it really accumulate a lot of
cruft?
Where you see "TODO" in Documentation/features/*/*/arch-support.txt it may
mean that an architecture is preventing the removal of an old API.
You're quite right, though, it is incorrect to call this an "accumulation"
of baggage. It is actually the failure to remove cruft. (OTOH, shiny new
things can be said to "accumulate". That's how cruft gets made.)
