[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] <ding> "Bring out your dead" <ding>...

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/27/2012 01:13 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> The worst ones are generally those that got merged first AFAICT, so x86,
> m68k, alpha and arm would be worse in this regard than powerpc, parisc,
> sparc or sh, which in turn are worse than openrisc, hexagon or tile.
>
> This doesn't mean they were doing the wrong thing back in when the
> code was written, but we were certainly less careful when adding
> new interfaces than we are now.
>

Plus there was the whole "native binary compatibility" craze which 
affected architectures merged in the second half of the 1990s (Alpha, 
MIPS and SPARC mainly, I believe.)

	-hpa



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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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