* Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > back in the early days of the PCs, different systems from different vendors > > had different bus types, peripherals at different addresses, etc. that didn't > > make all of those vendors systems different architectures, instead those > > things were varients of the x86 architecture. > > Most of them didn't survive. That really helps. That's not the point, 99% of the current ARM boards will not 'survive' either, 10-20 years down the road. I think you missed David's main point: life inevitably went on and few of the old x86 hardware 'survived' physically, but past hardware versions have not littered the kernel source with half a million lines of source code in the process ... Having strong, effective platform abstractions inside the kernel really helps even if the hardware space itself is inevitably fragmented: both powerpc and x86 has shown that. Until you realize and appreciate that you really have not understood the problem i think. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
