linux-kernel - Re: next-20081030: voyager compile busted

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Message-ID: <490A2A30.5040905@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:42:08 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: next-20081030: voyager compile busted

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
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