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

Ingo Molnar
2007-03-14T12:53:52Z

* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:
> >
> > So I spent last night hacking up something to try to make a common
> > ground for all code that is shared between x86_64 and i386. I
> > called this
> >
> > arch/x86
>
> NACK. I think the current ways work just fine.

i agree. We've recently factored out quite a bit of common code between
i386 and x86_64 recently: genirq, gtod/clocksource and clockevents.

and that's how i think unification of architectures should be done: move
code into kernel/* and drivers/*, _not_ into another architecture. That
way all architectures benefit.

Ingo