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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: x86: unify genapic code, unify subarchitectures, remove old 
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Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>> Also bigsmp is kind of obsolete too, it could be probably
>> merged with default with very tiny impact because it's not
>> all that different.
> 
> yes bigsmp should not be treated non-standard.
> 

Yes, but one step at a time, please.  First let's clean up the subarch 
mess, and then we can worry about reunifying the operations that remain.

	-hpa