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Re: SGI XFS on ppc

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Subject: Re: SGI XFS on ppc
From: Thomas Graichen <news-innominate.list.sgi.xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 31 Jul 2000 06:12:29 GMT
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Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2000 00:33:57 GMT, 
> Thomas Graichen 
> <news-innominate.list.linux.ppc.dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@innominate.de>
>  wrote:
>>i was a bit curious about how hard/easy it would be to get xfs working
>>on non intel machines - and this is what i found out about it so far ...
>>* first thing in the pagebuf code was that at the ppc the local_bh_count
>>  seems to be defined in softirq.h instead of hardirq.h at the x86 - i
>>  just added softirq.h to page_buf.c (i think the ppc-dev people
>>  should have a look at how to fix this in a clean way)

> Linus wants softirq, local_irq_count, local_bh_count plus arch specific
> per-cpu counts merged into a single structure which is used on all
> systems.  I am doing the patch for this and will be mailing it to
> various arch lists later today.

that sounds good

>>* kernel now compiled fine but did not link due to unclear ifdefs
>>  for the kallsyms stuff (this should be propagated back to
>>  whom ever is maintaining the kallsyms stuff)

> More specific please.  kallsyms has no ifdefs.  It should only be
> included if you select kdb but kdb has not been ported to ppc.  I
> maintain modutils, kallsyms and kdb.

just have a look at the diff at

  http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/xfs-ppc/

t

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