Messages in this thread | | | Date | 2 May 2005 21:11:59 +0200 | Date | Mon, 2 May 2005 21:11:59 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]porting lockless mce from x86_64 to i386 |
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On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:31:25AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote: > > > > > > > > Doing it either way should be OK with this mce code. But I feel, > > > despite of the patch size, it is better to keep all the shared > > > code in i386 tree and link it from x86-64. Otherwise, it may become > > > kind of messy in future, with various links between i386 and x86-64. > > > > i386 already uses code from x86-64 (earlyprintk.c) - it is nothing > > new. > > I must say I don't like the bidirectional sharing either.
Why exactly? X86-64 is not a "slave" of i386, they are equal peers; free to share from each other, but none better than the other ... ,-)
-Andi (fighting for the rights of the repressed architectures ;-) > > But I guess it'll be simple enough to fix up if it causes any real problems > in the future.
The only complaint I heard so far was from a kernel hacker who deleted all non i386 architectures in his kernel trees, but I was not very sympathetic to that one. In fact I think it is better when people have full trees around so when they change something globally grep finds really all instances.
-Andi
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