[PATCH RESEND] Update kernel math-emu code from current glibc soft-fp

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jul 1 08:18:05 AEST 2015


On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 10:48 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 
> > Is there some way you can imagine of splitting this up into smaller chunks, so
> > that different arches can merge the pieces separately?
> 
> Well, it could be split as:
> 
> 1. Rename include/math-emu to math-emu-old and update architectures for 
> the renaming (mechanically).
> 
> 2. Add new include/math-emu.
> 
> 3,4,5,6,7. Move each architecture from math-emu-old to math-emu.
> 
> 8. Remove math-emu-old.
> 
> You still have patch 1 affecting all five architectures, but with the 
> per-architecture changes being much simpler.

OK. That's obviously a bit more churn, but I think it's probably the best
approach. Unless someone else has a better idea?

cheers




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