Andi Kleen <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 06:57, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> On x86-64 some trouble comes from it being 32bit code.
> That is why I suggested making it 64bit first, which would
> avoid many of the problems.
:)
>> Whichever way I go scrutinizing that possibility carefully is
>> a lot of work.
>
> 64bit conversion would be some work, the rest isn't I think.
Except for the head.S work the 64bit conversion was practically a noop.
> Alternatively if you don't like it we can just drop these compressor patches.
> I don't think they were essential.
Agreed. The printing portion wasn't essential.
At this point I think dropping the non-essential bits just to get the size
of the patchset down makes sense.
Eric
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