RE: [PATCH]porting lockless mce from x86_64 to i386

From: Guo, Racing
Date: Sun May 01 2005 - 20:03:41 EST


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>If Luming would not move the mce.c file from x86-64 to i386 then
>his patch would be only 1/4 as big. I dont know why he does this
>anyways, it seems completely pointless.

mce.c mce.h and mce_intel.c are moved from x86_64 to i386. so the
patch is very big. The motivation is to share mce code between
x86_64 and i386 and avoid duplicate code in x86_64 and i386.
I don't know whether I completely understand what you point.
Correct me if I am wrong.
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