From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KQ1jn-0008H6-Uu for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:12:44 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQ1jl-0008CX-Iw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:12:41 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQ1jj-000883-Q0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:12:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37101 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQ1jj-00087i-JG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:12:39 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:60857) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQ1jj-0006Kr-Ge for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:12:39 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KQ1cT-0006FR-9R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:05:11 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KQ1iV-0005Cb-Gd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:11:23 +0200 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:11:23 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080804151123.GA19951@thorin> References: <1217809888.6283.27.camel@fz.local> <20080804091619.GA737@thorin> <1217854285.27237.6.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1217854285.27237.6.camel@dv> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Current SVN is broken on x86_64 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:12:41 -0000 On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 08:51:25AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 11:16 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Furthermore, I had a look and some of the x86_64 versions are just stubs that > > include the i386 one. > > > > Why don't we handle this like Linux? They ship a single directory and use > > #ifdefs where appropiate. That enforces consistency in the dir layout. > > I think we can do it. i386 and x86_64 could be joined into one "x86" > architecture with common headers and sources. Perhaps the users should > still use i386 and x86_64 in configure, but the code should be mostly > common. Ok, but I think the i386->x86 rename would be overkill. We're already using i386/ headers on x86_64 (for example, when building util/ stuff in grub-pc). It doesn't hurt if we continue doing that IMHO. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."