Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:19:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:19:15 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:38544 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:19:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:22:17 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20021209.122217.56508636.davem@redhat.com> To: davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, dan@debian.org, george@mvista.com, jim.houston@ccur.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org, ak@muc.de, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, ralf@gnu.org, willy@debian.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] compatibility syscall layer (lets try again) From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <15860.53866.127553.424553@napali.hpl.hp.com> References: <20021209154142.GA22901@nevyn.them.org> <15860.53866.127553.424553@napali.hpl.hp.com> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 18 From: David Mosberger Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 09:27:06 -0800 >>>>> On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:48:13 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds said: Linus> Architecture maintainers, can you comment on how easy/hard it Linus> is to do the same thing on your architectures? I _assume_ Linus> it's trivial (akin to the three-liner register state change Linus> in i386/kernel/signal.c). It's not trivial on ia64: It was really easy on Sparc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/