On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > Going back to the subject -- what's the problem with dependencies?
>
> Nothing. It was looking like you meant something else and me and Adrian
> got trapped by that. Feel free to change it back to what it was but
> maybe "depends on MIPS32 || (MIPS64 && EXPERIMENTAL)" is less ambigous?
I thought the construct triggered a problem elsewhere and the change was
supposed to work it around. I'm pretty surprised you've forgotten I
ported the DECstation code to 64 bits -- it's already over a year and a
half since I did the first boot.
I feel a bit hesitant about changing the expression, but perhaps I may
add a comment to the help text, on why it's experimental for 64-bit. I
suspect hardly anyone will notice, though -- if built with unpatched tools
and run on a problematic processor the kernel complains and refuses to run
asking to contact <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> and nobody did that yet...
Maciej
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