Jivin Robin Getz lays it down ... > On Thu 20 Sep 2007 11:03, David McCullough pondered: > > I would say that (a) is definately not the case. I am sure the BF guys > > will say they have been banging us on the head with changes for a long > > time and getting no where as we considered the changes to severe or out > > of line. > > I don't think we have been "banging heads" with you (unless that is your > feeling?) - how about "working together, but diverting to satisfy different > needs" :)
No head banging feelings here, but I would understand if you guys felt that way occasionally ;-) I obviously forgot the happy face on that statement. It was meant as a good thing. > I think that we have had more issues in the uClinux-dist (userspace and build > environment), but for kernel code, we have moved from some non-standard > (stupid) things we were doing early on to what we have today - which is as > common/standard with other archs as we can be. > > Although this is slightly off topic - on the uClinux distribution side - most > of our changes are based on requirements/desires from being able to support > fdpic elf and flat formats, and to attempt to make things easier for end > users/us to use/maintain. Where we do make changes - we always send the patch > upstream and have the conversation with you (not everyone else does this), > and some/most times rework things so they are more acceptable to you. We > don't always come to an agreement - but we always have the discussion, and > are willing to move if we can make things better that still meets both our > needs/desires. > > > This particular patch was trivial in comparison to others I've seen, > > That is what we thought. > > > it fixed all the existing arches (not something that is always done) and > > seemed a reasonable start to finally get the BF guys up and running. > > Still, happy to make it better of course ;-) > > As always - we are more than happy to explore/review alternative patches if > people want to write/sumbit them. Cheers, Davidm -- David McCullough, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ph:+61 734352815 Secure Computing - SnapGear http://www.uCdot.org http://www.cyberguard.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/