From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264343AbTKMQsv (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:48:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264348AbTKMQsv (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:48:51 -0500 Received: from mtvcafw.SGI.COM ([192.48.171.6]:63401 "EHLO rj.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264343AbTKMQsu (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:48:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:48:01 -0800 To: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Updating our sn code in 2.6 Message-ID: <20031113164801.GA27268@sgi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031107102514.A2437@infradead.org> <20031113065844.A16234@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031113065844.A16234@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:58:44AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > + - please don't kill xbridge support from pcibr, we want to reuse > > + it for the ip27 port soon > > > > Not sure what you mean here. I'm pretty sure if this code is needed for > > a non-ia64 system it won't be in the sn2 code. > > Well, given that the ip27 is basically the same system architecture as > sn2 we want to resuse that code. Whether it stays in arch/ia64/ or goes > to drivers/xtalk is a different question. Also note that you can just > make the IS_PIC calls evulate to 1 always in your build, any recent gcc > will optimize away the xbridge codepathes then Are you sure you want to handle it this way? I'm not sure the code is very useful in its current state--I think we might be better off downloading an old kernel version for reference and writing new code for drivers/xtalk. Then again, starting with the existing mips code might be even better since we know that worked at one point. Jesse