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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2
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> also, having the x32_ and x64_ prefix is a painful daily reminder for 
> all of us changing the architecture that 'this stuff needs to be 
> unified!'.

We would probably stuck with that forever and it just looks ugly.
Non paravirt xen uses such a setup and I always hated it.

Besides the architecture is called x86_64

I don't see a problem with step by step unifying what makes sense 
in the current setup.

-Andi