Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:55:08AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> However, going over 5000 jiffies usages and re-doing all of them
> doesn't happen overnight, and I do suspect that some people want
> their embedded clockless systems to run Linux 2.4 or 2.6, rather
> than 2.8...

Such (embedded) hardware uses a very small percentage of the drivers
we have in the tree, changing them as required seems quite sane and
manageable in 2.7.x time-frame.

I also do see why clock-less has to be embedded only, I suspect maybe
the s390 could make use of this too?  (Think of lots of mostly-idle
Linux instances under VM).

And, it's a 'new feature' so if people need to upgrade, then Life is
tough.  How sad.


  --cw
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