Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jul 21 2007 - 04:33:40 EST



* Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > It happens so often that someone accidentally breaks one
> > architecture because he didn't notice the code also gets used on the
> > other architecture.
>
> That's not changing at all. Especially with even more sharing, (than I
> think would be prudent) like Thomas treated, you'll likely have to
> test compile both for most changes.

yes, very much so, and that's exactly one of our points.

Ingo
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