Re: [RFC][PATCHSET] PC-9800 architecture (CORE only)

[Osamu Tomita <tomita@cinet.co.jp>]

Thanks for comment.

Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:49:19PM +0900, Osamu Tomita wrote:
> > This is a part of big patchset for support PC-9800
> > architecture, one of i386 sub architectures.
> 
> I'm courious, what the PC-9800 architecture is.
Please visit our web page. We put summary information there.
http://www.kmc.gr.jp/proj/linux98/index-english.html
PC-9800 has support hardware for japanese language, so in 80's 
many people use PC-9800 to run "Word processor" applications.
Recently, PC-9800 is mostly used as network client in enterprise,
goverment or school.

> > Core part cleanup has done. (But device drivers are still working.)
> > Many "#if" are killed by using "mach-xxx" framework.
> > If someone pick up this, we are very happy.
> > Comments are always welcome. Please tell me.
> 
> This patch is a good spring cleanup of arch/i386. You nicely
> replace many "magic hex values" with defines. That makes it very
> readable for other arch maintainers and even for the i386
> maintainers.
> 
> Good work!
Thanks, But other components need much more cleanup, sigh...

Best regards
Osamu Tomita  tomita@cinet.co.jp