LWN.net Logo

New maintainers for the x86 architecture

New maintainers for the x86 architecture

Posted Oct 23, 2007 22:04 UTC (Tue) by sawickig (subscriber, #25699)
Parent article: New maintainers for the x86 architecture

People have reasons for doing things or not doing them. I tip my hat to Andi for bowing out
gracefully. Why everybody makes such a big deal out of this, is what I do not understand. Andi
came to to a juncture where he feels he needs to part away. He did it quietly and in civilized
manner. Why there is anything wrong with that? Why moves like that even kept the most low key
as possible generate so much emotions in the community?

On a personal note, Andi, I hope you read that. I thank you here for guiding me several years
ago when I was one of early adopters od x86_64 and my box was crashing and you analyzed
several crash dumps to conclude that I most likely had hardware problem (one of first retail
AMD64 dual core chips). I was in awe how a guru, someone like you can be so humble and down to
earth and help just another human being just like that. No flame no bad emotions, just pure
professionalism.

Good luck Andi.


(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2008, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds