Subject: Re: kernel_pt_table should be static?
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
From: John Fremlin <vii@users.sourceforge.net>
List: port-arm
Date: 05/27/2001 13:34:57
Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk> writes:

[...]

> > Indeed. Indeed. I'm rewriting initarm now (a spot of much needed work
> > IMHO). Would other ARMs want it? ATM it is just for psionw.
> 
> The thing is that every arm arch has it's own version of initarm,

That is one of the big problems of the ARM ports IMHO. A lot of code
is copied from one another instead of improved and shared. This
copying is often done to add or take out nasty hacks without using
#ifdefs, when the best solution would be not to have the nasty hacks
in the first place ;-)

[...]

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