From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938541AbXGTWnD (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:43:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755893AbXGTWmr (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:42:47 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:55954 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755034AbXGTWmq (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:42:46 -0400 Message-ID: <46A13A62.5020502@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:42:42 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Arjan van de Ven , Chris Wright , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86 References: <1184970779.4012.38.camel@chaos> <46A1396F.4090204@garzik.org> <20070720224033.GA12358@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20070720224033.GA12358@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> I agree with Andi... it's quite nice to be able to leave some >> arch/i386 stuff, and not carry it over to arch/x86-64. > > we can leave those few items in arch/x86 just as much. No need to keep > around a legacy tree for that. By extension it makes doing that sort of thing, in general, more difficult. Which is IMO not desirable. Jeff