<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>We can do that anytime, can't we? I think it's not urgent to have a kernel image. If we get there in 6 months or a year, it doesn't really matter to me.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is not what the community has been saying for the past 5 years.</div><div><br></div><div>Having a kernel image is essential if the forking problem is to be turned into an opportunity, rather than a pain.</div><div><br></div><div>As I have always said, anyone can hack at a monolithic image, that is not news. In fact that is the approach that got is into this mess in the first place. If the community wants to go in a specific direction then you have to plan for it, think about it and actually work on the tools you need to achieve it.</div><div><br></div><div>Developing tools for 12 months, forgetting all of your goals, and going back to where you started, and then saying that you don't care if you never get to where you wanted to go, is not progress in my book.</div><div><br></div><div>Keith</div><br></div> </body></html>