> A twist on that theme is to merge the parts of ia32 emulation in the > ia64 kernel with the x86_64 architecture. Where that makes sense, > anyway. Large portions of the ia32 emulation are already common with > other CONFIG_COMPAT architectures, so reducing the amount of code > reduces the amount of potentially buggy code ;-)
That would be good ... currently there is 5674 lines below arch/ia64/ia32/ If the majority of that were shared with x86_64 (which has a much bigger testing population than ia64), it would help enormously. > I've been meaning to get round to this for a while, but somehow I never > quite have time. That's always a problem. -Tony
