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/
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