3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
6:41 p.m.
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Liam Proven wrote:
On 2 June 2013 18:34, Cory Smelosky <b4 at
gewt.net> wrote:
If you read the discussions that took place, Linus took the path of least
resistance and which took the least amount of work to implement. Someone
submitted a patch to axed support for the i386 and added support for some
other x86 extensions that the i386 support "was in the way of". #ifdef...
I thought part of the linux development procedure
was to change everything
and drop compatability for no reason?
No, but Linus doesn't like to be tied down or held back.