Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86

Steven Rostedt
2007-07-20T23:24:43Z

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 00:32 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > We are pleased to announce a project we've been working on for some
> > time: the unified x86 architecture tree, or "arch/x86" - and we'd like
> > to solicit feedback about it.
>
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> I really like the idea of a unified source tree for the 2 x86 variants.
> The technical differences are really small (of course there are
> differences, especially in the boot sequence), and striving to unify as
> much as possible while having a clean way to do per 32/64 bit parts as
> well is something that imo is the right thing.
>

Not to mention all the paravirt stuff that's going on. Having a single
x86 arch to work with would be greatly beneficial to the work being done
to port paravirt to x86_64.

Way to go, Thomas and Ingo!

-- Steve