On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> Create a common kernel/init_task.c, and convert low hanging fruit to
> use it. Architecture maintainers will need to ensure that I didn't
> break anything before applying the init_task removal patch to their
> arch.
>
> A few architectures appear to possibly rely on link-ordering (with
> an extra-y makefile rule) and may need additional linker script rules.
>
> Unconverted architectures so far are m68k (because it doesn't use an explicit
> init_task.c), ia64 (because it faffs about with init_thread_union), and
> sparc{,64} (which appear to rely on some magic.)
m68k just has the same code as anyone else embedded in
arch/m68k/kernel/process.c.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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