* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Once again here's an attempt to put the shared files of x86_64 and
> i386 into a separate directory.
what do you think about the idea i suggested: to do an x32_/x64_ prefix
(or _32/_64 postfix), in a brute-force way, _right away_. I.e. do not
have any overlap of having both arch/i386/ and arch/x86_64/ and
arch/x86/ - move everything to arch/x86/ right now.
in the initial step we dont even have to attempt to share anything - we
just want to make sure everything still works fine. Just create a
'unified' layout with the prefix/postfix solution, and make sure that
the build architecture can compile existing .configs just fine, which
results in a functionally identical vmlinux that would be built if these
files were still in arch/i386/ (and arch/x86_64/).
i dont think we want to have a too long 'overlap' period. Lets just
unify them, that would be the only large-scale intrusive move.
>From that point on, the unification decisions would be largely per-file:
"do we want to unify process_32.c and process_64.c into the same file?".
Ingo
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