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From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] UML - support checkstack
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:57:59 +0200
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On Tuesday 15 August 2006 05:17, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:45:48AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > SUBARCH has a different meaning here.  For UML, it's the underlying,
> > > host, architecture, not a variant architecture like Voyager.
> >
> > Right, so it sounds like this breaks Voyager. Which I think means we
> > ought to pass ARCH and SUBARCH and do the right thing inside
> > checkstack.
>
> There is no use of the symbol SUBARCH in arch/i386.  While this may be
> jarring to people who know and love Voyager, it doesn't break
> anything.
>
> We could do what you suggest, but that sounds unnecessary.
>
> I'd rather either
> 	leave things as they are
Yes, and make the script check if it ARCH=um or not (which is obvious for 
now - nobody really wants a clear abstraction here).
> 	rename SUBARCH

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