Re: Linux 2.6.0-test7 - stability freeze

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:34:46PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Wed, Oct 08, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > The more interesting thing is that I and Andrew are trying to calm down 
> > development, and I do _not_ want to see patches that don't fix a real and 
> > clear bug. In other words, the "cleanup and janitorial" stuff is on hold, 
> > and -test8 and then -test9 should be for _stability_ fixes only.
> 
> a longstanding bug, should probably go to the main Makefile. But I dont
> know if all supported archs know about -msoft-float.

It is not supported on all arches (and various lk arches already use similar
switches in their arch/<arch>/Makefile, e.g. sparc* uses -mno-fpu,
ppc* use -msoft-float, arm uses -mno-fpu -msoft-float, sh64 -m5-32media-nofpu).
So IMHO it should stay in arch/<arch>/Makefile.

	Jakub
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