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LPC: Coping with hardware diversity

Posted Sep 15, 2011 17:51 UTC (Thu) by PaulMcKenney (subscriber, #9624)
In reply to: LPC: Coping with hardware diversity by btraynor
Parent article: LPC: Coping with hardware diversity

I believe that Mr. Rusling is making a distinction between embedded vendors working with a snapshot of the Linux kernel (which is their traditional approach) on the one hand, and staying close to mainline (and contributing changes/fixes to mainline) on the other.

One motivation for getting embedded developers to come to mainstream Linux events is to get them comfortable with contributing changes/fixes.

So one difference between embedded and desktop is that from what I can see, desktop developers are comfortable contributing upstream. This is becoming increasingly true for embedded developers, but more progress is needed.

Does it all make sense now?

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LPC: Coping with hardware diversity

Posted Sep 15, 2011 18:56 UTC (Thu) by btraynor (subscriber, #26672) [Link]

That explanation does make sense, thanks. I guess I get a little antsy when people call for broad, sweeping changes like (in this case) eliminating Embedded Linux conferences.