Re: [PATCH 0/4]: Assembler unification...

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On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:35:43PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 
> This is just an FYI patch posting, I won't push this out to the
> sparc-next-2.6 GIT tree until I go over it some more and do some
> testing.
> 
> This series starts unifying assembler code that is essentially the
> same on 32-bit and 64-bit.
> 
> The differences are mostly in the branch instructions, since sparc
> 64-bit has prediction, and branch-on-register instructions.
> 
> We fabricate this using some helper macros in a new asm/asm.h header
> file.  We'll add new stuff there, as needed.
> 
> I also took the opportunity to get these files using the proper
> linux/linkage.h macros to define function boundaries.

Browsed the patches and unification looks good.
As I do not speak sparc assembler I did not look
at the unified code.

	Sam
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