On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:01:27 -0600 (CST) Brian <lxy at cloudnet.com> wrote: > What you'd create is a forked mess. Imagine is the S/390, Amiga, and > Sparc folks all forked the 2.4.19 kernel. Amiga developers write a > patch for some Resier code that can be applied to all platforms. Now > what? How do you fork the code back into the tree, then redistribute > it back to all the little forks? > Which is kind of the mess I was thinking of it becoming. But I do like an "optimized platform" idea. =) > My suggestion would not be a code fork, but just a re-packaging with > every kernel release. Don't just offer one large compressed tarball, > build tarballs for each platform. You haven't forked the code, you've > just made the time it takes me to download and unpack that mess a lot > shorter. > In a sense, isn't this already being done with the various ports offered by different vendors?