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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: next-20081030: voyager compile busted
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:42:08 -0700
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Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>

James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> Before you advocate this, think what it would entail.  Voyager replaces
> (and has to replace because its not apic based) the entirety of smp.c
> and smpboot.c ... they'd all have to be abstracted through function
> pointers.
> 

... or through patched direct calls, which is of course also a possibility.

	-hpa