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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "Guo, Racing" <racing.guo@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]porting lockless mce from x86_64 to i386
Date: 2 May 2005 18:10:29 +0200
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 18:10:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050502161029.GF27150@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16A54BF5D6E14E4D916CE26C9AD305750162F6F1@pdsmsx402.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:01:53AM +0800, Guo, Racing wrote:
> >
> >If Luming would not move the mce.c file from x86-64 to i386 then
> >his patch would be only 1/4 as big. I dont know why he does this
> >anyways, it seems completely pointless.
> 
> mce.c mce.h and mce_intel.c are moved from x86_64 to i386. so the
> patch is very big. The motivation is to share mce code between
> x86_64 and i386 and avoid duplicate code in x86_64 and i386.
> I don't know whether I completely understand what you point.
> Correct me if I am wrong.

You can share code as well by linking it from x86-64 into i386,
not only the other way round.  This is already done for earlyprintk
for example.

-Andi



  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-02 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-02  1:01 [PATCH]porting lockless mce from x86_64 to i386 Guo, Racing
2005-05-02 16:10 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-02 16:15 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2005-05-02 17:15 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-02 18:31   ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-02 19:11     ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-02 19:36       ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-05 15:14       ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-03 16:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-04-29 16:42 Yu, Luming
     [not found] <200504261327.30928.luming.yu@intel.com>
2005-04-27 12:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-04-27 18:38   ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-29 15:27     ` Andi Kleen

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