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[Scott Long]

Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:10:21PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>...
>>
>>>I'd like to see the emphasis put more on the <arch>s; if
>>>they are going to be Tier-1, provide the necessary libkse
>>>bits :-)
>>
>>Who are "the arches"?  KSE is a new feature, so the responsibility is on
>>the KSE developers to complete their implementation on all Tier-1
>>platforms.  I've offered Alpha boxes to all the KSE developers and have
>>had zero takers... (same for i386 SMP boxes... but that's another story)
> 
> 
> I don't recall being offered an SMP box, but perhaps you're
> talking about the kernel hackers (mostly David & Julian).
> 
> Yes, KSE is relatively new, but it has been in the
> tree for a while now.  You can't expect the KSE guys
> to be knowledgeable in all the archs.  For someone
> that is, though, it should be very easy.  Adding support
> for KSE really, really, pales in comparison to the
> kernel MD bits.
> 
> I think putting the onus on us for all the archs
> is a little unfair.  We are more than happy to do
> some of the work and help guide others.
> 

The expectation is not so much that you, David, Julian, etc will
write the actual code, but that you all will make sure that the
code gets written.

Scott