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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Jan 13, 2012 17:25 UTC (Fri) by daglwn (subscriber, #65432)Parent article: Quotes of the week
A couple of observations.
1. Andrew Morton is the most practical, best engineering software engineer I've had the pleasure to follow.
2. Greg K-H is right about the more mainstream parts of the embedded world. They are general-purpose machines. But his comparison to 8-way SMP is odd. Even back then 8-way was not a very large or particularly special machine. The REALLY big iron guys have done a lot of Linux customization over the years. I'm not intimately familiar with the details and don't know how much of that can be generalized but there are almost certainly many special cases on both extremes.
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Quotes of the week Posted Jan 13, 2012 17:41 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] Am I the only LWN reader who is still sad about 4k stacks going away? I'd use this "embedded" feature on some simple servers if possible.
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 20, 2012 6:56 UTC (Fri) by i3839 (guest, #31386) [Link]
No, I always used the 4K pages too and am also sad it disappeared.
I find it ridiculous that something so simple and self contained as
Logger Posted Jan 20, 2012 8:57 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] It is rather premature to say that the logger is being rejected. It is being discussed. What eventually gets in may not look all that much like the current logger code, but that is different from saying like the patch is being rejected.Now binder, on the other hand...
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 13, 2012 22:25 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
when 8-way SMP machines came out, they were very much 'big iron', at the time almost nobody had even a 2-way SMP machine, and as such, any support for SMP was a 'big iron' feature
Greg may have had the time slightly wrong, but even if he was off by a few years and the real figure is 15 years instead of 10 years, his point is still valid.
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