[PATCH] i386 arch subdivision into machine types for 2.5.15

[PATCH] i386 arch subdivision into machine types for 2.5.15

[James Bottomley]

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.

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.

The other thing I haven't done (yet) is to document all the hooks and how they 
work; I'll try to do that shortly.

The 147k diff file (large because it has a lot of file moves) is at

http://www.hansenpartnership.com/voyager/files/arch-split-2.5.15.diff

There's also a bitkeeper repository with all this in at

http://linux-voyager.bkbits.net/arch-split-2.5

James Bottomley

Re: [PATCH] i386 arch subdivision into machine types for 2.5.15

[Dave Jones]

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.

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Re: [PATCH] i386 arch subdivision into machine types for 2.5.15

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:14:47AM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

Patricia Gaughen (specifically for support of the NUMA-Q platform/subarch)


Cheers,
Bill

Re: [PATCH] i386 arch subdivision into machine types for 2.5.15

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 03:28:53PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
 > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:14:47AM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > 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.
 > Patricia Gaughen (specifically for support of the NUMA-Q platform/subarch)

Ah, yes. Thanks for jogging my memory 8-)

    Dave.

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