IBM Linux/390 patches

[Alan Cox]

> 	I am a member of the GCC Steering Committee and I initiated
> discussions about IBM's S/390 GNU toolchain improvements many months ago
> with other GCC core maintainers.  You obviously do not know about that and
> do not know about other details of the S/390 GNU toolchain and Linux port
> that continue to evolve.

That suggests incompetence in the GCC steering committee. Richard Henderson 
knew about the work being done by Linas last May when it was discussed a bit
during Linux Expo. Linas has a right to be pissed off if nobody in the gcc/egcs
echelons didnt think to tell both teams about each other

> the "community" by IBM employees.  IBM executives and employees are well
> aware of the free software community and have been cooperating with the
> community since its earliest beginnings.  IBM is strongly engaged with the
> GNU/Linux community.

Which IBM is this. The IBM that tried to get people fired, the IBM that tried
to stop me working on the lanstreamer driver, the IBM that helped me work
on the lanstreamer driver, the IBM that worked on the excellent raid drivers
and donated them or the IBM that tried to stop the S/390 release getting out
of IBM ?

This is aimed at everyone. IBM is _huge_, bits of IBM are on both sides of 
every war. In fact the only thing IBM departments seem to hate more than
Microsoft are each other.

Linas, please bear in mind that the folks who got the 390 code and tools out
are on our side, the ones who made it so damned difficult to get out are not.
Both sides work for IBM, but that doesn't mean IBM is good or IBM is bad, IBM
is simply too large to fit on one side of most fences.

The code is now out there, it apparently works passably and is a great basis
to build good mainframe Linux support. Don't blame the folks who wrote the code
for the duplication of effort. You had to fight lack of access, and a steep
learning curve, they had to fight ibm  8)

Alan