From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935786AbXGUGh2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:37:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753423AbXGUGhN (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:37:13 -0400 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]:36816 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753264AbXGUGhM (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:37:12 -0400 Message-ID: <46A1A993.202@qumranet.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:37:07 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070615) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Chris Wright , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86 References: <1184970779.4012.38.camel@chaos> In-Reply-To: <1184970779.4012.38.camel@chaos> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (firebolt.argo.co.il [0.0.0.0]); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:37:07 +0300 (IDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thomas Gleixner wrote: > We are pleased to announce a project we've been working on for some > time: the unified x86 architecture tree, or "arch/x86" - and we'd like > to solicit feedback about it. > kvm will really like this. while kvm will always have #ifdefs for i386 and x86_64, this work will reduce them, and will make kvm code cleaner. Of course, I also believe it makes sense from the non-kvm-centric point of view. Thanks for doing this! -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.