Re: [PATCH 2.6.17] Clean up and refactor i386 sub-architecture setup

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Zachary Amsden wrote:
> 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.
In my current Xen patch, I split the mach-default/setup.c into setup.c 
and setup-memory.c; Xen uses setup.c as-is, and then provides its own 
setup-xen.c.  That solves my immediate problem, but I don't know if it 
generalizes enough; certainly factoring default/setup.c into a cluster 
of reusable setup-*.c pieces is a pretty lightweight way of reusing 
those pieces.

    J