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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Ed Schouten <edschouten@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] i386: Xbox support
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:18:28 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41592C64.3030409@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040928090641.GC18819@elf.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:

>>Well, I ask because there is probably quite a large number of embedded type
>>devices devices that you could "just add a small patch for" to get it 
>>working.
> 
> 
> Yes, and we support most of them :-). This is not really different
> from all the arm platforms etc.


Yeah OK. I don't want to turn this into an argument, but the difference
is AFAIK, that many of them are made *for* running Linux (or at least as
a supported configuration). While the xbox requires you to circumvent
the hardware.

But on the other hand, "why not?" :)

As I said, so long as Linus or Andrew is happy with it, I don't care.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-28  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-27 18:02 [Patch] i386: Xbox support Ed Schouten
2004-09-28  0:03 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-28  2:35   ` Will Dyson
2004-09-28  4:46   ` Ed Schouten
2004-09-28  7:42     ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-28  8:46       ` Ed Schouten
2004-09-29 18:21         ` Tonnerre
2004-09-29 22:16           ` Ed Schouten
2004-09-28  9:06       ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-28  9:18         ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-09-28 10:11           ` Switch back to Real mode and then boot strap Aboo Valappil
2004-09-28 10:21             ` Alex Riesen
2004-09-28 10:46               ` Aboo Valappil
2004-09-28 10:57                 ` Alex Riesen
2004-09-28 21:26             ` Aboo Valappil
2004-09-28 21:45           ` [Patch] i386: Xbox support Rahul Karnik
2004-09-28 22:06             ` Ed Schouten
2004-09-28 10:11       ` David Weinehall

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