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SubjectRe: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86
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On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 09:42 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > 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.

And a shared code base makes it entirely clear, that you must recheck
bot ARCHs when you touch code in there.

Right now it is not clear at all.

tglx


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