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Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf



On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 08:03 +0000, Tixy wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 03:46 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 08:41 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > [...]
> 
> > > > In future all ARM kernels should be multi-platform, but I expect there
> > > > will still be different flavours, such as for LPAE or the RT featureset.
> > > > I would much prefer a name that will provide a more useful distinction
> > > > in future (and not be too long!).  Perhaps it should refer to the CPU
> > > > requirement like the flavours for some other architectures.
> > > 
> > > I see. Although it is very simple, how is "armmp"?
> > [...]
> > 
> > Sounds alright to be, but let's allow the other ARM porters a few more
> > days to comment.
> 
> 'MP' has some history as meaning multi-processor, so might be confusing.
> (But perhaps not confusing to many.)

All multi-platform configurations will have to be multi-processor as
well, so that shouldn't matter too much.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ...
and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds

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