[fpc-other] Fork

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 22.10.2010 14:20, schrieb Sven Barth:
> Am 22.10.2010 14:11, schrieb Florian Klaempfl:
>> Am 22.10.2010 13:38, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
>>>
>>> God sakes man, this is ridiculous! Look at other successful open source
>>> projects - they don't work like that. If your patch works, that enough.
>>
>> Oh yes, bringing a patch into the linux kernel is just simple compared
>> with FPC. Xen, ReiserFS4, Android patches etc. were applied within days.
>> Oh, wait .... they are still no in the vanilla kernel though it's so
>> easy as Graeme just explained.
> 
> Oh yes... I sent a small patch to the video4linux mailing list (which is
> part of the kernel) in April. In July I sent a corrected version (ok...
> that time difference was my problem) and yesterday it was finally queued
> for inclusion in 2.6.37.
> 
> But I wanted that patch in there, cause I wanted my device to work
> without manually patching around. So I waited and finally my wish was
> fulfilled :D

A patch to make every early fpc versions work with linux (adding support
of the enter instruction in the kernel) was rejected. With the comment,
"support of the enter instruction is not needed, gcc doesn't generate it
anyways", though enter is supported even by 80286 processors.

So much about the truth of Graeme's statement :)