From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 11 May 2002 18:14:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 11 May 2002 18:14:49 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:58894 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 11 May 2002 18:14:48 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 00:14:47 +0200 From: Dave Jones To: James Bottomley Cc: mochel@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 arch subdivision into machine types for 2.5.15 Message-ID: <20020512001447.D30904@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , James Bottomley , mochel@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200205112206.g4BM6Dp13365@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:06:13PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > This split is essentially the same as the one I did for 2.5.8 except that I've > cleaned up setup_arch.h slightly (the other was, as I was told, "icky"). I > didn't do any other alterations to setup.c because the projects list implies > that Dave Jones and Patrick Mochel are going to be doing this, so I'll slide > my changes in around this. First batch of this work turned up in my tree in 2.5.14-dj2, seems to be behaving well, so that should be going to Linus soon. With that out of the way, (plus some other smaller split-up work like mtrr), the path should be paved for x86 subarch support. > I've pulled visws.c out of i386/pci and put it in i386/visws.c, since it's > really specific to visws and doing this also allows me to simplify the > i386/pci/Makefile. Sounds ok. visws is after all, an x86 subarch. Though we should probably get some input from the folks who are actually still maintaining this out-of-tree. I believe they have a project at sourceforge with newer visws code than whats in mainline. Other than Patricks work, and yours, the only other bits that are poking arch/i386 anytime soon are probably ACPI and possibly some further splitting up by one of the IBM folks whose name I've currently forgotten. Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs