Re: [PATCH] ia64: remove paravirt code

[Tony Luck]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Its quite a huge chunk of code removed, I doubt that .o files would
> remain intact after this, but I could be wrong. I think run time
> validation and examination of the code changes, understanding of the
> code changes is necessary, but also likely just as run time tests.

Actually it seems the most of the .o files below arch/ia64/kernel look quite
similar ... some post-processing of the "objdump -d" output the squash
out addreses ... and the before/after .o files have few enough differences
that they can be looked at manually.

> Is there no ia64 regression test suite?
Not really.

> I don't see ia64 getting much love anyway these days so would it not
> hurt to merge and spin through linux-next for a while and if no issues
> are reported make it fly in?

Not sure how many people besides me are booting linux-next kernels.

Still - let's give it a try,

-Tony
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