On 03/20/2013 03:27 AM, Kirk Terrell wrote:
On 03/19/2013 06:16 PM, Andrew Bradford wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:35:23 -0800
Kirk Terrell <[email protected]> wrote:
Is it worth keeping ARM big endian around in the embedded book?
If not, then that easily begs the question of if it's worth keeping the
wrt "arch" around since it's just MIPS but with a few tweaks to support
the WRT routers.
I don't want to rip out useful things, but due to low developer time
for the embedded book, reducing the number of configurations / archs
supported seems like a reasonable thing to do. Based on memory, most
of the people building the embedded book are doing so on ARM little
endian armv5 or armv7-a with a few here and there doing x86 or MIPS.
What do you, and the list, think?
Before, my 2 cents, full disclosure: I have not used the embedded book.
The only big-endian I've done is on my old boat-anchor of a PPC iMac ...
which is still sitting on a 3 year old CLFS install - not embedded.
The "arch" is still useful for several routers, e.g.: I have a WL-700gE
which is MIPS ... but personally, I follow the regular CLFS book, not
the embedded book.
I have no idea if anyone does anything with ARM following the embedded
book. I have a RaspberryPi, but when I get around to it, I'll probably
be CLFSing it from the regular book.
Since the books are not executable, and it's not simply a matter of
getting some hardware donated and pressing the "go" button, it requires
someone to invest non-trivial time and effort.
While it may be a bit disappointing, unless someone offers to invest the
time to maintain the various architectures for the embedded book, I
think it is very reasonable to remove them -- perhaps replace them with
a note that other architectures have been supported in the past.
-Eric
P.S.: Too much do I see that I fall victim to letting the pursuit of
perfection undermine my ability to deliver something of value.
Generally, I think it is better to have progress on something small than
have something bigger and better which never delivers.
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