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Re: [PAE support] Types + cosmetic fixes



On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:58:33AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > they have, although it would make sense to make it different.
> > The main problem would be configure scripts that may not parse properly
> > a different $MACHINE.
> 
> No, it does not make sense to make them different.  It makes sense to make 
> them LESS different (i.e. fix the ABI issues). 

Which ABI ? again, we do not have a defined ABI. We have an API (which is
not the same things, implementation details are not specified and
can differ from a kernel to another), and it doesn't say which part of the
API can be used in a module and which cannot.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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