linuxolator: amd64 Linux Test Project failures

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Divacky Roman <xdivac02 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz> (from Tue, 2 Jan  
2007 17:53:18 +0100):

> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:55:47AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Quoting Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> (from Sun, 31 Dec 2006
>> 13:21:27 -0600):
>>
>> >That patch to mmap fixes the problems with mmap on amd64, and brings
>> >the failed LTP testcases closer to the  i386 failed testcases.
>>
>> Thanks for testing, I try to get time to commit this.
>
> which makes me wonder what is MD on the linux_mmap* code. wouldnt it  
>  be better
> to move that to some MI file instead?

I thought about this as well. I came to the conclusion that I need to  
have a look at the FreeBSD mmap code and to see if we have different  
code on ia64, sparc64 and ppc than on ia32/amd64. If we have different  
code there, it makes sense to have the linux_mmap MD. But this assumes  
we will get linuxulator stuff for another architecture where different  
MD code is needed. We could say that we should keep it MI until real  
MD code is needed...

> and there are tons of similar code.. for example linux_pause. how is this MD?
> I'd vote for moving that code..
>
> opinions?

You could make a table in the wiki which lists those parts which are  
MD currently but can be made MI. It would allow more people to look at  
the code in question and comment the proposal.

Bye,
Alexander.

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