On 04/24/2014 07:27 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:36:01PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: >>> Most of hardware specific codes in the Intel uncore driver are for >>> SandyBridge/IvyBridge/Haswell. Uncore subsystem in these CPUs are >>> similar. One module per CPU type means we have to duplicate lots of >>> code. I don't think it's a good idea. >>> >> Then, at least split nhm_ex from the rest. It is very big. > > Aren't the EX parts in general far more complex and different from the > EP parts? Or will the SNB/IVB/HSW-EX parts also be similar again? (this > would be a good thing).
SNB/IVB/HSW-EX are almost identical to SNB/IVB/HSW-EP. NHM/WSM-EX are complete different from SNB/IVB/HSW-EX Regards Yan, Zheng > > But yes, it makes sense to at least split the EP and EX parts, and split > where the families are different. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
