Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2

Andi Kleen
2007-03-14T18:47:50Z

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:36:35AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 14:05 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > The thing is others and I (and you) are working on getting paravirt_ops
> > > working for x86_64. There's a lot of overlap between i386 and x86_64.
> > > Right now the i386 is ahead of x86_64 and the code seems to be put more
> > > in the arch/i386 arch. So now we are going to introduce a
> > > new ../../i386 hack to get to a shared paravirt_shared.c(?). Or do we
> >
> > What would you like exactly to share?
>
> I'm still working on that. Others have pressured us into consolidating
> as much usable code for i386 into x86_64. This may turn out not to be
> too feasible anyway.

Only do it where it makes sense and is not too intrusive.
Redoing the whole port just for lguest64 is probably not a good idea.

-Andi