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Message-ID: <20070910192920.GA2080@elte.hu>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:29:20 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
kbuild devel <kbuild-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] kbuild - introduce vdir to make life easier for x86_64
* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 21:11 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > One of the complaints raised about the current x86_64 Makfiles are
> > the ugliness needed to reuse code from i386. Andi asked me if we
> > could do something in kbuild to make this less ugly and below are
> > the hack I could come up with.
>
> while in general this is definitely a nice change, it does not really
> solve the real problem of code scattered across two architectures. The
> Makefile polishing is the least thing we care about.
>
> Thanks,
i'd like to add it here that Makefile polishing is important - it's just
that in the context of arch/*x86* the Makefile impact of the current
cross-arch code sharing practice is one of the smaller problems and the
Makefiles get cleaned up via the arch/x86 merge anyway.
Ingo
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