Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/59] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64

2007-03-14 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 11:12 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:39:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > > > What we have currently is a bunch of hacks. Seems that people can't make > > > up their mind to what to do. >

Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/59] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64

2007-03-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've started to notice that the i386 build gets broken now that most > developers tend to have newer CPU's and run mostly on x86-64 (and yes, > that's me too), and while I don't think unifying things will guarantee > that doesn't happen in the fut

Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/59] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64

2007-03-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:39:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > What we have currently is a bunch of hacks. Seems that people can't make > > up their mind to what to do. I think they work fine. I don't like such large scale renaming -- t

Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/59] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64

2007-03-13 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 14:45 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > what about asm-x86/ dir? the asm/ symlink would still point to relevant > arch, but the file there could be simply #include ? Would it be acceptable to have an include/asm-x86/ dir with one file? Of course it will open the door to merge c

Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/59] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64

2007-03-13 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 14:39 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > What we have currently is a bunch of hacks. Seems that people can't make > > up their mind to what to do. > > I don't mind the patches, but I'd be a lot happier if it also was a state

Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/59] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Steven Rostedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Recently I've been doing some work that will affect both the i386 and x86_64 > architectures. So there will be common code for both, as well as code > that will be unique for the specific arch. So I was looking into a way > to do this cleanly, and fou

Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/59] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64

2007-03-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > What we have currently is a bunch of hacks. Seems that people can't make > up their mind to what to do. I don't mind the patches, but I'd be a lot happier if it also was a stated intention to actually make it be buildable as "x86", the same way t