Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:39:05 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ia64: remove paravirt code | From | Tony Luck <> |
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote: > Its quite a huge chunk of code removed, I doubt that .o files would > remain intact after this, but I could be wrong. I think run time > validation and examination of the code changes, understanding of the > code changes is necessary, but also likely just as run time tests.
Actually it seems the most of the .o files below arch/ia64/kernel look quite similar ... some post-processing of the "objdump -d" output the squash out addreses ... and the before/after .o files have few enough differences that they can be looked at manually.
> Is there no ia64 regression test suite? Not really.
> I don't see ia64 getting much love anyway these days so would it not > hurt to merge and spin through linux-next for a while and if no issues > are reported make it fly in?
Not sure how many people besides me are booting linux-next kernels.
Still - let's give it a try,
-Tony
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