Re: RFC/patch 0/3 portability: please review

[Hollis Blanchard <hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 22:53 +0100, Carsten Otte wrote:
> Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> > Basically, It doesn't impact our side. For patch 2/3, we had better find
> > an approach to handle mmio-realted functions, becasue they may exist in
> > most archs. 
> > For IA64, if this move happens, we have to duplicate them in IA64 side.
> Thanks for your feedback. This matches Hollis' view, I'll try to 
> rework that patch. We're really the only platform without mmio, that's 
> a s390 special case. I'll leave it in common and find a way around for 
> s390.

Well, those functions right now are hacks that assume the only in-kernel
device is an APIC. That won't even build for anybody who doesn't have
vcpu->apic... that's why I say go ahead and move them, and we can worry
about it later.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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