[Mageia-dev] [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

Fri Aug 26 18:11:41 CEST 2011

David:
+
+On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:55 PM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
+> ARM is currently in worse shape than the PC market ever was in this aspect,
+> but in this case it's less a matter of getting the hardware guys to change
+> what they do than it is to get better documentation of what the hardware is
+> really doing and not duplicating drivers for cases where the right answer is
+> just replacing a constant with a variable (just as an example of the very
+> common case where the same component is wired to a different address)
+
+I agree.
+
+Maybe Linaro or an equivalent organization could provide a "ARM kernel
+janitor" service to the community, where they refactor existing ARM
+platform/driver code to make it more common.  This is something that's
+difficult for a single person with experience in only one or two SoCs
+to do, but it would be pretty straightforward work for a team of three
+or four people with broad coverage of the SoC devices the kernel
+supports now.
+
+As such refactoring consolidated larger and larger chunks of kernel
+code, new designs would gravitate towards those consolidated
+implementations because they would be the dominant references.
+
+
+b.g.
+-- 
+Bill Gatliff
+bgat at billgatliff.com
+