Messages in this thread | | | Date | 2 May 2005 18:10:29 +0200 | Date | Mon, 2 May 2005 18:10:29 +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 09:01:53AM +0800, Guo, Racing wrote: > > > >If Luming would not move the mce.c file from x86-64 to i386 then > >his patch would be only 1/4 as big. I dont know why he does this > >anyways, it seems completely pointless. > > mce.c mce.h and mce_intel.c are moved from x86_64 to i386. so the > patch is very big. The motivation is to share mce code between > x86_64 and i386 and avoid duplicate code in x86_64 and i386. > I don't know whether I completely understand what you point. > Correct me if I am wrong.
You can share code as well by linking it from x86-64 into i386, not only the other way round. This is already done for earlyprintk for example.
-Andi
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