Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for
	some	processors
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael-lists@free-electrons.com>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linux-tiny@selenic.com
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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:28:52 -0600
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On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:01 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > 
> > Best would be to have no ifdefs and do it all with linker magic, of
> > course. But that's trickier.
> > 
> 
> I concur with this, definitely.

Ok, so let's come up with a plan. We can:

a) use weak symbols, ala cond_syscall
b) use a special section
c) use early_init code (is it early enough?)
c) have some sort of registration list

Having a generic cond_call of some sort might be nice for this sort of
thing.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

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