Re: The end of embedded Linux?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 09:12:45 EST


On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 13:10, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:
> Hi Russell!
>
> > And as final proof, the solution taken by two embedded companies is
> > to develop two completely separate cs89x0 driver from the existing one
> > (and then pick one/merge them) rather than fixing stuff in the way
> > suggested by Alan.
>
> Hey, the original cs89x0 driver were just too ugly to actually work on -
> It was much more productive to just start from scratch (;

But in that case if you have a better cs89x0 driver that works well and
works on multiple platforms, 2.5 is the right time to throw it at the
tree and bury the current one

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