Re: [PATCH] Updating our sn code in 2.6

[jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes)]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:58:44AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > + 	- please don't kill xbridge support from pcibr, we want to reuse
> > + 	it for the ip27 port soon
> > 
> > Not sure what you mean here. I'm pretty sure if this code is needed for
> > a non-ia64 system it won't be in the sn2 code.
> 
> Well, given that the ip27 is basically the same system architecture as 
> sn2 we want to resuse that code.  Whether it stays in arch/ia64/ or goes
> to drivers/xtalk is a different question.  Also note that you can just
> make the IS_PIC calls evulate to 1 always in your build, any recent gcc
> will optimize away the xbridge codepathes then

Are you sure you want to handle it this way?  I'm not sure the code is
very useful in its current state--I think we might be better off
downloading an old kernel version for reference and writing new code for
drivers/xtalk.

Then again, starting with the existing mips code might be even better
since we know that worked at one point.

Jesse