Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:29:20 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] kbuild - introduce vdir to make life easier for x86_64 |
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* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 21:11 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > One of the complaints raised about the current x86_64 Makfiles are > > the ugliness needed to reuse code from i386. Andi asked me if we > > could do something in kbuild to make this less ugly and below are > > the hack I could come up with. > > while in general this is definitely a nice change, it does not really > solve the real problem of code scattered across two architectures. The > Makefile polishing is the least thing we care about. > > Thanks,
i'd like to add it here that Makefile polishing is important - it's just that in the context of arch/*x86* the Makefile impact of the current cross-arch code sharing practice is one of the smaller problems and the Makefiles get cleaned up via the arch/x86 merge anyway.
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