Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86 | Date | Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:42:48 +0200 |
| |
On Saturday 21 July 2007 09:35:33 Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The problem with the current "merging" is that it's extremely hard to > figure out whether some code in x86_64 might be using some code in i386 > since there are currently 5 (five) different mechanisms used for sharing > code between the two architectures. > > It happens so often that someone accidentally breaks one architecture > because he didn't notice the code also gets used on the other > architecture.
That's not changing at all. Especially with even more sharing, (than I think would be prudent) like Thomas treated, you'll likely have to test compile both for most changes.
-Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |