Brendan Conoboy wrote:
This was one of the points raised by FESCo yesterday, and it's a
fine
question that we'll be answering better, elsewhere, in due course. That
said, where does this question lead? If we explain what we're trying to
get to, will it somehow overcome the objections raised such as build
system performance? For the sake of coherent discussion, let's assume
that we have good reasons why we want to move to primary, and we can
keep the subject on what the requirements are for doing so. The topic
at hand isn't even ARM specific, it's just been prompted by us ARM
aficionados. Again, I understand that there do need to be good reasons,
that's just not the subject of this particular thread.
It doesn't make sense to discuss requirements for becoming a primary
architecture without discussing whether it should be considered in the first
place. I don't see ANY reasons why it's needed. And as I wrote in my first
reply in this thread, I don't think there should be a generic process for
becoming a primary architecture at all, it should be a change done only in
very exceptional cases.
Kevin Kofler