From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@foobazco.org>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Question on the binutils tradlittlemips patch
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:34:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010423003440.A20179@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010422212301.B6180@foobazco.org>; from wesolows@foobazco.org on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:23:01PM -0700
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:23:01PM -0700, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:19:53PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > I have them working in the case I care about - no backwards
> > compatibility at all. We (Monta Vista) can get away with this :)
> > I've attached the patches.
>
> This looks like what I have come up with as well. I don't care about
> backward compatibility either. If someone else wants to support
> broken crap that's their problem; in an age where we have scripts and
> makefiles to rebuild entire systems from source I can't see the point
> of binary compatibility.
Don't you wish? My other hat is Debian, which can't just ditch
existing MIPS installations like that.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-23 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-18 18:19 Question on the binutils tradlittlemips patch Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-04-18 20:11 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-04-18 21:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-04-18 20:47 ` Steven J. Hill
2001-04-18 20:37 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-04-23 1:07 ` Keith M Wesolowski
2001-04-23 2:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-04-23 4:23 ` Keith M Wesolowski
2001-04-23 4:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2001-04-23 5:54 ` Andreas Jaeger
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