linux-kernel - Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86

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Message-ID: <20070721083251.GA373@elte.hu>
Date:	Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:32:51 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86


* Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:

> > It happens so often that someone accidentally breaks one 
> > architecture because he didn't notice the code also gets used on the 
> > other architecture.
> 
> That's not changing at all. Especially with even more sharing, (than I 
> think would be prudent) like Thomas treated, you'll likely have to 
> test compile both for most changes.

yes, very much so, and that's exactly one of our points.

	Ingo
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