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

Andi Kleen
2007-07-21T05:42:01Z

On Saturday 21 July 2007 01:55, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 21/07/07, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 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.
> >
> > What is this about?
>
> [..]
>
> > As usual, comments and suggestions are welcome!
>
> I really like this idea - code duplication is a bad thing.

Did you actually look at the patch? It doesn't have a single line
less duplication than there was before. Everything that could
be easily shared was shared already.

It's just new window dressing without any real advantages.

-Andi