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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Niches and new developers (especially xbox)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:33:08
Message-Id: 20040524183302.GA6186@cerberus.oppresses.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Niches and new developers (especially xbox) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:27:39PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Mon, 24 May 2004 13:48:25 -0400 Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o> wrote:
3 > | I'm looking for comments on what, exactly, constitutes a platform
4 > | worth recruiting developers for.
5 >
6 > Isn't the xbox just an x86 subarch? The way I see it, x86 recruiting for
7 > xbox support would be like, for example, Sparc recruiting a developer
8 > specifically to work on JavaStations. If these people were being brought
9 > on board to help with maintaining x86, with additional specialisation
10 > for xbox, it might make more sense...
11 >
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13 Yeah, that's why I'm looking for a list of precisely what would need to
14 be done in the tree for it. As far as I can tell they mostly don't need
15 anything but a patched kernel.
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