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 17:40:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4498958B.504@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <449891B9.3060409@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I haven't looked at that. This patch was intended to be a very simple
> uncontroversial rearrangement, in preparation for the Xen subarch, and
> to just clean up a corner of the kernel which seems to have gotten a
> bit warty. Chris just sent me your patches from March which look like
> they cover a lot of the same ground, but I haven't looked at them in
> detail yet.
This is cleaner than the patches I sent in March, although we want to
re-use parts of the mach-default code, not replace it entirely. Hence
my interest in the multi-subarch generic kernel. I'd be glad to look
into it.
Zach
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-21 0:40 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
2006-06-21 0:22 ` Chris Wright
2006-06-21 0:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-06-21 0:40 ` Zachary Amsden [this message]
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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