Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:15:59 +0200 | From | Bodo Stroesser <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/7] uml: some invasive changes for -mm |
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Blaisorblade wrote: > This is the first of a series of 7 invasive patches for the -mm tree, which > are to be reviewed (not only by UML folks), and possibly merged for the > 2.6.13 cycle. > > The first one splits the i386 syscall table out of entry.S, without any real > change for them (the file is included in the old place); if there are any > syscall table changes, please be careful; this maybe means place *this* one > before the others (or even merge now the i386 code movement part); I don't > want that this patch is modified and that subtle bugs are introduced. The > code movement is a really trivial code movement, however (no hidden changes). > > This is needed to enable us to include the i386 syscall table, so that we are > sure that they match. I already handled the real differences between i386 and > UML (see the patch). I love this idea and it fits well to UML/s390, where syscall table already lives in a separate source. As change and grow of syscall tables is not really coordinated between different arches, this change will simplify maintenance of UML-subarches a lot.
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