From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit kernel patch.
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:06:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021002160642.E16482@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D9AFC8F.261F0C37@mips.com>; from carstenl@mips.com on Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:02:55PM +0200
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:02:55PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> > Much of the code is so generic it almost deserves to live in a directory
> > even higher in the hierarchy. If you look at the 32-bit compat code for
> > the various 64-bit architectures of Linux (in particular sparc64 and ia64),
> > it's a single huge cut'n'paste session. Not much of that code is actually
> > architecture dependant.
>
> That would be even better, but unfortunately a lot of the structures used in
> the compat code is not exactly the same across architectures :-(
> But it should be possible to merges a lot this stuff into a generic
> (architecture independent) set of functions.
True. The basic plan would be to provide the structure definitions and
some architecture dependencies from headers and keep the generic compat
code in a linux-32 directory.
The syscalls are still fairly harmless - the true pain are all the ioctls
that keep growing and changing like weed ...
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-02 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-02 13:22 64-bit kernel patch Carsten Langgaard
2002-10-02 13:40 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-10-02 13:44 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-10-02 13:46 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-10-02 14:02 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-10-02 14:06 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-10-02 14:05 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-10-02 14:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-10-02 14:33 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-10-03 6:49 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-10-03 11:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-10-04 6:39 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-10-04 12:43 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-10 11:26 Carsten Langgaard
2002-10-10 11:41 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-09-09 12:16 Carsten Langgaard
2002-09-09 13:03 ` Carsten Langgaard
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