The architecture-specific parts of the kernel tarball are a rather small
fraction, so the reduction isn't that large. Plus knowing that
kernel-core-2.1.129 goes with kernel-i386-2.1.128 and kernel-sparc-2.1.125
and ... is just not worth it. Or distribute all in sync, then each kernel
hacker _will_ download everything: How else check if this stupid bug in
asm-i386 is also in asm-sparc et al, and propagate the change as needed?
And the nice job of splitting up each patch for the different archs.
Not useful.
> Not really. From my own experiences, (with Caldera OpenLinux) what happens
> is this; patches from Linus won't apply to COL without serious work if you
> just have i386, etc. Linus says no. He has a system that works for him, why
> change it?
That's just another point.
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