TIP

Konstantin Ryabitsev konstantin at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Sep 9 12:14:50 EDT 2024


On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 06:32:36PM GMT, Constantine Shulyupin wrote:
> What does "TIP" stand for in the repository
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/?

This made me curious, so I asked around. Apparently it stands for "Thomas,
Ingo, Peter" because it started out as a shared tree for Thomas Gleixner, Ingo
Molnar and Peter Anvin.

Today, it should really be called TIPPBD, because it's also shared with Peter
Zijlstra, Boris Petkov and Dave Hansen.

-K



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