On Tue, 10 Jun 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > There is a clear difference between architectures that are actively used > in production as compared to architectures that are used for hobbyists > projects only. > Regarding the Linux/m68k effort, that claim is unsupported (and unsupportable, AFAICS). If you're just talking about Debian/m68k, it's really up to you how you will use it to add value. > We couldn't push such changes on x86_64, for example, because there is > huge worldwide userbase meaning that introducing such an ABI-breaking > change would come at a huge cost. On m68k, on the other hand, the user > base is so small and insignificant > that the costs for introducing the change are negligible and the profits > for making the change strongly outweigh the disadvantages. > I find cost/benefit analyses to be useful. But how will you quantify this? Moreover, you reduced Debian/m68k to insignificance when you characterized all of its users as insignificant. As its maintainer, that's your prerogative, I suppose.
