Andreas> Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> writes:
|> I've been thinking about the 2.3.x development, I have some suggestions
|> that might help make the code tree more manageable.
|>
|> How about splitting the kernel tree into separate .tar.gz files like so:
|>
|> 1) Linux-Core-2.3.x.tar.gz - contains the 100% portable core of kernel
|> 2) Linux-Arch-<cpu>-2.3.x.tar.gz - contains the architecture specifics
|> i.e Linux-Arch-ia32-2.3.x,
|> Linux-Arch-ia64-2.3.x,
|> Linux-Arch-mips-2.3.x ... and so forth.
|> 3) Linux-Drivers-<cpu>-2.3.x - contains the drivers for that architecture
|> ie. Linux-Drivers-ia32... you get the idea.
Andreas> There are already drivers that compile for multiple
Andreas> architectures. Where would you put them? Surely you don't
Andreas> want to keep separate copies for each of the supported
Andreas> architecture.
Yes and I can't wait for the maintenance nightmare this is going to
cause for the port maintainers - can we please forget this idea about
splitting the source once and for all.
Jes
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