From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@osdl.org>, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] arch/x86_common: more formal reuse of i386+x86_64 source code
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:53:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060222205314.GF2696@smtp.west.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060208225336.23539710.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:53:36PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> (not completed yet)
> (patch applies to 2.6.16-rc2)
>
> Patch is 331 KB and is at
> http://www.xenotime.net/linux/patches/x86-common1.patch
>
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
>
> Move lots of i386 & x86_64 common code into arch/x86_common/
> and modify Makefiles to use it from there.
I know I'm quite late here, but perhaps it should be arch/common? I
remember thinking ages ago the i8259 stuff could be shared between ppc32
and i386 (it was ages ago). And there's possibly other stuff like that.
--
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-22 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-09 6:53 [PATCH/RFC] arch/x86_common: more formal reuse of i386+x86_64 source code Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-09 7:00 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-09 9:59 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-14 19:22 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-22 20:53 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2006-02-22 20:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
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