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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam•org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm•linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm•com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists•arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Thumb-2 kernel support
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:07:30 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808112157010.22892@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080728125336.GL32366@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 01:40:55PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:45 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 12:08 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:10:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > Well.  Rather than doing things sequentially we could go parallel. 
> > > > > Russell could say "I'll look at them before 2.6.28 but please put them
> > > > > into linux-next meanwhile".
> > > > 
> > > > There have been some valid but (iirc) non-vocal objections to the
> > > > Thumb-2 support from a few people.  The biggest one is all the
> > > > mess associated with supporting this "unified" assembler stuff.
> > > 
> > > My first implementation of these patches (last year) created a separate
> > > arch/ directory and a lot of people objected to this recommending to
> > > merge it into the existing arch/arm. Once I posted the re-worked
> > > implementation there were no big .
> > 
> > It looks like I didn't finish the above phrase - I meant no big
> > objections to the conditional compilation or someone stating clearly
> > that this is unacceptable.
> 
> And that's partly what I find rather frustrating.  I _know_ that people
> have issues with it, but they haven't raised them.

It happens that I just returned from vacations so couldn't speak up 
before now.

I do have issues with this new and improved unified assembly 
crap^H^H^H^Hsyntax.  And crappy features makes for crappy patches.  
With some additional rounds of review and refinements we might possibly 
make T2 support somewhat tolerable, but I don't think the latest T2 
patch series is there yet.  I'll provide relevant comments in the 
existing threads.


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-12  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080606173300.7930.31525.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
2008-06-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 00/12] Thumb-2 kernel support Andrew Morton
2008-07-01  8:32   ` Catalin Marinas
2008-07-01  8:45     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-23 16:05       ` Catalin Marinas
2008-07-23 20:01         ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-23 21:10           ` Catalin Marinas
2008-07-23 22:10             ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-24  8:28               ` Catalin Marinas
2008-07-27 11:08               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2008-07-28 11:45                 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-07-28 12:40                   ` Catalin Marinas
2008-07-28 12:53                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2008-08-12  2:07                       ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2008-07-28 12:50                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2008-07-28 14:41                     ` Catalin Marinas
2008-08-12  2:17                     ` Nicolas Pitre

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