On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:59:27PM +0800, Yu Huang wrote:
> Thanks for David, Nish and Eric's reply!
>
> In the past 3 days I have fully tested libhugetlbfs on MIPS platform
> (Loongson 3A, a MIPS R4k arch imp). I worked fine.
>
> Before I post the patch I want to get one thing clear: do I have to
> support --hugetlbfs-link option? Is this a MUST? Since I have only
> make the code to support --hugetlbfs-align. I don't want to do the dirty
> work of writing ldscripts for MIPS. --hugetlbfs-align is truely enough
> for us.
I don't see any good reason to implement the old broken relinking
method on a new port.
> Since I don't support --hugetlbfs-link option, some test programs in
> tests/ directory don't compile. Currently I simply comment them
> out.
While you're testing internally, yes.
For release, you'll need to teach the run_tests script to
automatically run the old-style link tests only on platforms which
support them.
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