From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
jeremy@xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.17] Clean up and refactor i386 sub-architecture setup
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:08:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44988E08.9070000@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44988803.5090305@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
>
> Clean up and refactor i386 sub-architecture setup.
>
> This change moves all the code from the
> asm-i386/mach-*/setup_arch_pre/post.h headers, into
> arch/i386/mach-*/setup.c. mach-*/setup_arch_pre.h is renamed to
> setup_arch.h, and contains only things which should be in header
> files. It is purely code-motion; there should be no functional
> changes at all.
>
> Several functions in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c needed to be made
> non-static so that they're visible to the code in mach-*/setup.c.
> asm-i386/setup.h is used to hold the prototypes for these functions.
This looks awesome. Are there any plans to get these sub-architectures
to work with the generic subarch? Seems the next logical step would be
putting each mach-*/*.o into separated namespaces.
Zach
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-21 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-20 23:42 [PATCH 2.6.17] Clean up and refactor i386 sub-architecture setup Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-06-21 0:08 ` Zachary Amsden [this message]
2006-06-21 0:22 ` Chris Wright
2006-06-21 0:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-06-21 0:40 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-06-21 1:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-06-21 1:24 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-06-21 1:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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