Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:19:49 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag |
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Robert Dewar wrote: > H.J. Lu wrote: > >> So that is the bug in the Linux kernel. Since fixing kernel is much >> easier >> than providing a workaround in compilers, I think kernel should be fixed >> and no need for icc/gcc fix. > > Fixing a bug in the Linux kernel is not "much easier". You are taking > a purely engineering viewpoint, but life is not like that. There are > lots of copies of Linux kernels around and in use. The issue is not > fixing the kernel per se, it is propagating that change to all > Linux kernels in use -- THAT'S another matter entirely, and is > far far more difficult than making sure that a kernel fix is > qualified and widely proopagated. >
Not really, it's just a matter of time. Typical distro cycles are on the order of 3 years.
-hpa
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