linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] um: Use __i386__ in ifdef for vsyscall exports, not SUBARCH

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Message-ID: <1312153988.18010.39.camel@i7.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:13:07 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] um: Use __i386__ in ifdef for vsyscall exports, not
 SUBARCH_i386

On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 23:58 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> FWIW, the next step (still not pushed there) is to move arch/um/sys-x86 to
> arch/x86/um, with arch/um/os-Linux/sys-x86 becoming arch/x86/um/os-Linux,
> Kconfig.x86 moving to arch/x86/um/Kconfig and Makefile-x86 - to
> arch/x86/um/Makefile.defs.  Next after that - arch/powerpc/um (and yes,
> it means resurrected uml/ppc port; for now - only ppc32, since I have no
> ppc64 boxen to test on). 

I can give you an account on a ppc64 box if that would help...

What you've done so far, with the one extra patch I just sent, seems
perfectly sufficient to make it cope with SUBARCH defaulting to x86
instead of to i386 or x86_64. Are you happy to push it before you do the
rest of the refactoring/moving?

-- 
dwmw2

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