Re: [PATCH] 2.6.17-rc3-mm1 breaks AGP on amd64 boxes in 32 bit mode

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 03:36:33 EST


> x86_64 uses numerous x86 files in this manner, and now we we have x86 using
> a couple of x86_64 files in a siilar manner. I think this is a bad thing,
> and that we should make all these cross-references operate in the same
> direction rather than in both directions. x86_64 developers already have
> to deal with this problem, so why make start burdening x86 developers also?

So far the only complaints
I heard was from a few people who deleted everything but arch/i386.
I wasn't very sympathetic to that particular problem because doing
so means they don't care about other architectures at all.

>
>
> Anyway. Andi, I'll drop x86_64-mm-new-northbridge-fix.patch. Please add
> these exports to your copy of x86_64-mm-new-northbridge.patch

It's already in the version on firstfloor. Just resync with that.

-Andi

P.S.: Since ff connectivity has been spotty in the past I'm also
working on mirroring the patches directly to ftp.x86-64.org
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