Re: [x86, patch] turn x86 VISWS into a generic architecture

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Ok. Mind sending a patch for this against tip/master? Both your 
> > changes and the visws cleanups are all in there and are tested 
> > through on typical hardware.
> >
> > (Also, there's the suggestion from Yinghai to first do the numa 
> > init.)
> 
> could change the numa.c to numaq.c too. that name is confusing..

agreed. Maybe rename it to numaq_32.c as well.

Then we could potentially eliminate the NUMAQ subarch altogether as well 
and merge all it into arch/x86/kernel/numaq_quirks.c, just like we did 
it for arch/x86/kernel/visws_quirks.c?

That reminds me, wouldnt it all be better in a single place, i.e. move 
arch/x86/pci/visws.c into arch/x86/kernel/visws_quirks.c as well? Such 
quirks are better viewed in their entirety in a single file, i'm not 
sure it makes sense to spread them out.

This way, instead of having this mess of entire subarches, we'd have a 
single, clean "quirks driver" file, conditionally buildable into the 
generic PC code, that would register itself with all the generic quirk 
hooks that are needed for a given weird box.

	Ingo