Post #1579025
2026-04-23 14:01 UTC
@axboe@fosstodon.org @Aissen@social.treehouse.systems @gregkh@social.kernel.org @vbabka@mastodon.social I already tried this, nommu is untested garbage and a hack and I hate it.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/77ab71c7-3608-4636-a618-3044c2316a92@lucifer.local/
hch of all people said:
"Nommu is a long standing and reasonable
well maintained part of the kernel, why would anyone want to kill it
for no good reason? I know quite a lot of products shipping it."
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20241122121826.GA26024@lst.de/
Also read this - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/639c273e-0652-4d25-8385-fdddd7d1de78@wdc.com/
I mean honestly I'm surprised Linus allowed a new nommu arch in, and I'd rather we dump all of them.
It's a big maintenance burden, it's untested, and nobody anywhere has the slightest interest in improving any of that.
@david@social.kernel.org maybe we should isolate it to some section of maintainers (and out of one of mine ;) and treat it the way it deserves to be treated...
Yeah other than that fine with it 🤣
Replies (2)
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@ljs@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-23 14:04
@axboe@fosstodon.org @Aissen@social.treehouse.systems @gregkh@social.kernel.org @vbabka@mastodon.social @david@social.kernel.org also I note that it doesn't seem that any of the imagined 'many' people who have interests in nommu lift a finger to maintain or test it. So honestly on that argument alone it should go...
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@wil@macaw.social 2026-04-23 14:29
@ljs@mastodonapp.uk pr_warn(“this is not a place of honor\n”); at boot #ifdef