From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934292AbXGKXFP (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:05:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761990AbXGKXFC (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:05:02 -0400 Received: from 216-99-217-87.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.217.87]:56659 "EHLO sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757409AbXGKXFA (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:05:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:03:37 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven , Chris Wright Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Message-ID: <20070711230337.GC4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711174252.GA16793@elte.hu> <1184191488.12353.160.camel@chaos> <1184194219.12353.170.camel@chaos> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1184194219.12353.170.camel@chaos> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Thomas Gleixner (tglx@linutronix.de) wrote: > The HPET change, which is the larger part of the conversion set simply > because we now share the code with i386, might be split out by disabling > HPET in the first step, doing the PIT / APIC conversion and then the > HPET one in a separate step. The timer specific changes (i.e. the merges between arches) can be done more slowly, but the setup above is basically where I started, and it was already broken on one of my test boxes. Anyway, I'll help you however I can, because it's important to me to get this merged. thanks, -chris