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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:42:08 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
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       Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: next-20081030: voyager compile busted
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James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> Before you advocate this, think what it would entail.  Voyager replaces
> (and has to replace because its not apic based) the entirety of smp.c
> and smpboot.c ... they'd all have to be abstracted through function
> pointers.
> 

... or through patched direct calls, which is of course also a possibility.

	-hpa
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