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

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On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 09:42 +0200, Andi Kleen 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.

And a shared code base makes it entirely clear, that you must recheck
bot ARCHs when you touch code in there. 

Right now it is not clear at all.

	tglx


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