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McKenney" , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org References: <20260908152808.3928630-1-arnd@kernel.org> <20260908152808.3928630-4-arnd@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Bart Van Assche In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/11/26 2:07 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: > The community has a built in tension around this: > > - One camp that are enthusiast like yourself. That kind of people > are running the show inside arch/m68k on Amigas and Ataris. > > - One camp who get their paycheck from present day companies > and constantly on top of the latest technology. As can be > seen Qualcomm just taped out a brand new ARMv7 SoC > named Kuno, for example. > > As you can see this leads to a bit of tension. That summary looks incomplete to me. Every time a kernel API is modified that is used by the RiscPC code, the RiscPC code has to be modified too. Removing the RiscPC code makes modifying kernel APIs easier. A recent example is available here: "[PATCH v5] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock" (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/20260831095821.3486994-1-john.g.garry@oracle.com/). Bart.