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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

  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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