Posted Jun 22, 2007 1:38 UTC (Fri) by maney (subscriber, #12630)
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I don't know if I'd want this to be LWN's purpose, but it's certainly a wonderful sketch of what must have been a heck of a conflagration. Who'd have thought a bike shed would burn so brightly?
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Posted Jun 22, 2007 2:40 UTC (Fri) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
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It's interesting to take some of the names in the thread and play with pairs of Google searches of the form:
Posted Jun 26, 2007 19:54 UTC (Tue) by lxoliva (subscriber, #40702)
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Wow, I'm truly amazed that only 20% of my postings to LKML are not in any way related with GPLv3. I've historically been a quiet bystander. Maybe if you extend the search to cover other licensing-related topics you'll get something closer to 100%. The few exceptions would be my occasional patches to firewire, raid and the FR-V port, when problems in them hit me hard enough for me to decide to do something about them. Fortunately I could not only modify the sources, but also use the resulting binary in the computers at my disposal. Yay! :-)
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Posted Jun 26, 2007 22:23 UTC (Tue) by viro (subscriber, #7872)
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> Fortunately I could not only modify the sources, but also use the
> resulting binary in the computers at my disposal. Yay! :-)
... Unfortunately, nobody could reproduce that binary with shipped
gcc, simply because FRV gcc support of constraints used in the
include/asm-frv/pgtable.h had been kept in hell-knows-which branch
in hell-knows-what repository for a long, long time...
Ironic, innit?
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Posted Jun 26, 2007 22:33 UTC (Tue) by lxoliva (subscriber, #40702)
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What constraints are these? I'm not aware of any FR-V constraints I've added myself that haven't been contributed. Maybe someone else added them and forgot to submit them upstream such that I could approve them? Is that somehow my fault?
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Posted Jun 26, 2007 23:36 UTC (Tue) by viro (subscriber, #7872)
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That would be "U". Compare the date when its use appeared in
the mainline kernel and the date when support went into released
gcc. I doubt that it had been your fault; just that mentioning
frv in that context was... unfortunate. Seriously, frv situation
had been extremely annoying for about a year, e.g. for cross-builds.