Quotes of the week

The issue is that ARM is really a processor architecture, not a platform. In most cases there's a lot of commonality among systems that have processors that use a particular architecture, but this isn't really true of ARM. This is one of the things that makes ARM popular with system-on-a-chip vendors: they can drop in an ARM processor core for the CPU and not be restricted in how they have to design the rest of the system. But it makes the Linux kernel a bit like a bookstore that started with Greek, Korean, and Japanese, and was happily organizing their books by character set, and then added a section for the Latin character set, only to find that people who can read the Latin character set can still only read a small fraction of the books that use it, on account of a surprising lack of standardization in the pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.