On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 00:32 +0200, 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. > > > > I really like the idea of a unified source tree for the 2 x86 variants. > The technical differences are really small (of course there are > differences, especially in the boot sequence), and striving to unify as > much as possible while having a clean way to do per 32/64 bit parts as > well is something that imo is the right thing. >
Not to mention all the paravirt stuff that's going on. Having a single x86 arch to work with would be greatly beneficial to the work being done to port paravirt to x86_64. Way to go, Thomas and Ingo! -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
