Re: Arches that don't support PREEMPT

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Sep 19 2023 - 10:32:26 EST


On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 04:24:48PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> If the conversion isn't hard, why is the first reflex the urge to remove an architecture
> instead of offering advise how to get the conversion done?

Because PREEMPT has been around since before 2005 (cc19ca86a023 created
Kconfig.preempt and I don't need to go back further than that to make my
point), and you haven't done the work yet. Clearly it takes the threat
of removal to get some kind of motion.