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

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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:41:42 +0100

> 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.

Thanks for reviewing.

I did my testing and checks and have pushed this work to
the sparc-next-2.6 GIT tree on kernel.org
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