From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 19:07:58 +0000 Subject: Re: milstone reached: ia64 linux builds out of Linus' tree Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2003-08-04 at 19:45, David S. Miller wrote: > My point was that if some random single monkey like me can keep a > loser platform like sparc64 still building in Linus's tree, a group of > several trained professionals should be able to fare much better :) Right but ia64 - for better or worse started off as a hideously divergent tree that did really stupid things like redefine GFP_DMA. It may be that ia64 should have aimed in a different direction from day one but having finally ended up in the right place *is* a milestone.