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On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:45 -0400, Olivier Crete wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2005-30-08 at 21:40 +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:15:18 +0000 |
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> > Luis Medinas <metalgod@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > I belive the worse QA is in x86 and not in AMD64 and MIPS. Between |
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> > > AMD64 and x86 there's a lot of differences i.e. many packages in the |
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> > > tree that needs to be patched to work on AMD64 so we cannot cover |
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> > > AMD64/x86 under the same keyword. |
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> > There are packages that will work on (for example) little-endian mips |
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> > but won't work or will need patching to work on big-endian, yet we |
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> > still cover both of those with one keyword. |
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> You are comparing apples and oranges.. Most of the herd devs only have |
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> x86 and are not able to test amd64. That's the main difference. |
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Yes you are right but we still need to take special treat for all archs |
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not only for amd64 or x86. With AMD64 we have the resources to make a |
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good QA. With x86 only the maintainers can take care of they own QA. |
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> Also, x86 is where most of the newbies are, we can't assume that if it |
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> works on amd64 it will also work on x86.. Let me say it again: x86 is |
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> still special.. its not a regular architecture. |
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Sure every arch is special. But there are archs that needs more work |
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then others i.e. MIPS |
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> That said, I agree, we need an x86 team. Maybe you want to lead it ? |
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I agree too we need an x86 team. Any Senior Developer wants to take this |
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position ? |
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> Olivier CrĂȘte |
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> tester@g.o |
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> Gentoo Developer |
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> x86 Security Liaison |
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Luis Medinas <metalgod@g.o> |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod |
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Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,app-cdr |
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