[PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Apr 24 03:42:32 PDT 2014


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> I guess I'm after some commitment that this is (a) useful to somebody and
> (b) going to be tested regularly, otherwise it will go the way of things
> like big-endian, where we end up carrying around code which is broken more
> often than not (although big-endian is more self-contained).

It may be something worth considering adding to my nightly builder/boot
testing, but I suspect that's impractical as it probably requires a BE
userspace, which would then mean that the platform can't boot LE.

I suspect that we will just have to rely on BE users staying around and
reporting problems when they occur.

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