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

Jeff Garzik
2007-07-20T22:43:03Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Andi... it's quite nice to be able to leave some
>> arch/i386 stuff, and not carry it over to arch/x86-64.
>
> we can leave those few items in arch/x86 just as much. No need to keep
> around a legacy tree for that.

By extension it makes doing that sort of thing, in general, more
difficult. Which is IMO not desirable.

Jeff