Re: [PATCH 0/10] Tree fixes for PARAVIRT

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 22 2008 - 07:22:09 EST



* Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2008 8:02 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > * Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > but in exchange you broke all of 32-bit with CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y.
> > > > Which means you did not even build-test it on 32-bit, let alone boot
> > > > test it...
> > >
> > > Why are we rushing so much to do 64-bit paravirt that we are breaking
> > > working configurations? If the developement is going to be this
> > > chaotic, it should be done and tested out of tree until it can
> > > stabilize.
> >
> > what you see is a open feedback cycle conducted on lkml. People send
> > patches for arch/x86, and we tell them if it breaks something. The bug
> > was found before i pushed out the x86.git devel tree (and the fix is
> > below - but this shouldnt matter to you because the bug never hit a
> > public x86.git tree).
> >
> > Ingo
> >
> Other than this, it seems to build and boot fine.
>
> Do you want me to resend ?

no, this was the only small problem i found, your series looks good to
me and is included in latest x86.git.

Ingo
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