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On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:36:51AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Wouldn't it be much better to try to standardize around that arm model
> instead?

Yap, as a matter of fact, this did came up recently as one thing that we
should do to avoid "fixes" like that. I'll put it on my TODO list and
won't be mad - at all, actually - if someone beats me to it. :-)

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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