From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [RFC] modularization of i386 setup_arch and mem_init in 2.4.18
Date: 8 Mar 2002 16:00:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6bjab$9v3$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203082108.g28L8I504672@w-gaughen.des.beaverton.ibm.com> <20020308223330.A15106@suse.de> <40480000.1015624741@flay> <20020308231609.C15106@suse.de>
Followup to: <20020308231609.C15106@suse.de>
By author: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:59:01PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
> > It would be nice to see a "blessing in principle" from Marcelo and
> > Linus before we / you start spending lots of time on this.
>
> When I first brought it up with hpa & Linus, I only got back
> a reply from hpa. Whether Linus was in "I want to think about this"
> mode or just random-drop I don't know, but I agree it's worth
> making sure theres some degree of acceptance before doing such
> a large change.
>
It seems like it's the "obviously right thing" to do. So far x86 (a
CPU architecture) has pretty much implied PC (a system architecuture),
since building a PC was the *only* reason to use x86, but that's
changing quickly.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-09 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-08 21:08 [RFC] modularization of i386 setup_arch and mem_init in 2.4.18 Patricia Gaughen
2002-03-08 21:33 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-08 21:34 ` Greg KH
2002-03-08 21:59 ` [Lse-tech] " Martin J. Bligh
2002-03-08 22:16 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-09 0:00 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-03-08 23:48 ` Christer Weinigel
2002-03-09 1:15 ` Josh Fryman
2002-03-09 1:21 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-09 1:22 ` Christer Weinigel
2002-03-10 7:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-09 7:22 ` [Lse-tech] " Christoph Hellwig
2002-03-10 7:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-10 13:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-11 3:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
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