Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:58:32 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: another attempt at x86 pagetable unification |
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* 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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