From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S969761AbXEIHEZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 03:04:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S969346AbXEIHDh (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 03:03:37 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:57495 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S969441AbXEIHDg (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 03:03:36 -0400 Message-ID: <46417215.6060204@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:02:45 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: "Antonino A. Daplas" , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Matt Domsch , "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal , James Bottomley , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: x86 setup rewrite tree ready for flamage^W review References: <464158E9.2000207@zytor.com> <20070509065122.GA5360@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20070509065122.GA5360@uranus.ravnborg.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/newsetup-36f021b5.patch > > Are you planning to rebase to -linus and then let > arch/x86_64/boot/Makefile be a reference to i386/boot/Makefile? > > The patch for kbuild to enable this is in -linus now. > > As for the important part (the code) I have not looked. I have rebased to -linus, but I'm a bit scared about making that particular change at this time, mostly because it requires some additional Makefile work which I would be happier to apply later, in order to make the "create clean patchset" task easier. All the source code is shared, but for right now the Makefiles are slightly different, mostly w.r.t. CFLAGS. -hpa