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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] x86: another attempt at x86 pagetable unification

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> Well, testing for bisectability requires compiling each patch as its
> applied, which gets painful for something like this where any change
> will rebuild the world. And dealing with patch conflicts caused by
> changing early patches in the series is never fun.

that's true. The 'rej' tool helps alot though. ( Plus a distcc cluster
that builds a distro kernel in 45-50 seconds from scratch ;)

> But I'm refactoring the series into smaller pieces now. Knowing what
> the outcome should look like, and there the pitfalls are, makes it
> fairly easy.

ok, great :-)

Ingo


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