On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:28:38 -0800 Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
>
> >This change breaks x86-64 compiles, as it uses the same file.
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for fixing that. Have we decided that file sharing of this sort
> is a really bad idea yet? I still see early_printk and pci-direct.h
> sharing remains. If this sharing really must go on, isn't there a less
> ad-hoc way to do it? Or at least a mention in the file that "before you
> modify, note this is shared by arch foo".
I guess a note would be OK, but there are notes already in Makefile*.
oh, or in some .c file if it does #include another.c
or #include ../../arch/other/blah
For i386 and x86_64, currently almost any file could be shared, except for
the cpu-specific ones.
One hurdle to get over seems to be what would Andi accept.
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~Randy
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