* Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > btw., are there any pending arch/x86 bits in -tiny? (stupid
> > question: were can i get the most uptodate version of -tiny from?)
>
> It's not a stupid question. I dropped updating the tree regulary some
> time ago to focus on merging bits and then got a bit side-tracked by
> this little thing called "version control".
>
> Michael is attempting to get the tree started again and has put a
> quilt up here:
>
> http://elinux.org/images/3/3c/Tiny-quilt-2.6.23-0.tar.bz2
cool! A few comments about the patches that affect arch/x86:
dmi_blacklist.patch:
+#ifdef CONFIG_DMI_SCAN
dmi_scan_machine();
+#endif
put that #ifdef into the include file and make it an inlined NOP in the
!DMI_SCAN case. That de-#ifdef-ifies the .c files.
cpu-support.patch: ditto.
mtrr.patch: ditto.
inflate-error.patch: please use:
quilt refresh --diffstat --sort --no-timestamps -p 1
when generating patches, to make them reviewable, uniform and
noise-free.
no-doublefault.patch: looks ok. Please add proper metadata and submit to
lkml.
sbf.patch: looks ok.
sysenter.patch:
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSENTER
sysenter_setup();
enable_sep_cpu();
+#endif
hide these #ifdefs in the include file. (as it already does) Looks ok
otherwise.
threadinfo-ool.patch: doesnt this break the scheduler? Had something
like this in -rt, i turned 'current' into a const actually, but had
trouble with keeping from gcc to do the right thing in sched.c. I guess
we could live with current_non_const() that gets it from assembly. (and
hence gcc wont be able to optimize it away in the middle of the
context-switch) But when done properly, this is both a nice, measurable
speedup on UP, and a nice space-saver.
tiny-cflags.patch: obsolete? Isnt CFLAGS already extendable? Question to
Sam i guess.
tsc.patch: look ok. needs x86.git porting.
Ingo
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