That's hardly the only reason. But yeah, that's one way to
implement the workaround, but _we_ (the Linux community) cannot
do it like that (easily) for all users.
But you're the guy who told us our firmware sucks and we should fix our
firmware
Yes, and? You _should_ fix your firmware, it is buggy after all.
Esp. back then as it wasn't shipping yet.
rather than clutter Linux with too many fixups.
Also, putting fixups in the wrapper is a wholly different thing from
putting fixups deep inside the kernel code proper.
Linux is already a bad enough moving target, and none of these fixes
help
other operating systems or developers, if we only patch Linux,
But that's not Linux' concern. You might care, we don't. Is
this so hard to understand?
1) the reports as we had when Efika was released and continually levied
against Pegasos firmware, that the firmware is broken and must be fixed
to comply, and no fixes will be considered because "bplan sucks and
must
fix it"
2) As long as the patches are 2 lines big, you will allow them in,
because
it is too much for a user to update firmware or run a script to boot?
Our only two concerns are what is best on technical grounds, and what
is best for our users.
Would you guys rather we shipped a boot script that ran the OS, fixed
all these issues in-place in-firmware, so Linux did not have to have
these
workarounds,
Sure, if you can do that, that would be great.
Segher
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