Re: [patch 04/14] ia64: Remove the __SMALL_ADDR_AREA attribute for per cpu access

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:

> On 11/26/07, Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The model(small) attribute is not supported by gcc 4.X. The tests
> > will always be negative today.
> 
> What was the rationale for removing this attribute?

The code is then similar across all architectures and can be moved into 
generic code.

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