From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752660AbXCNBDe (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:03:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752679AbXCNBDd (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:03:33 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-05.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.59]:37269 "EHLO ms-smtp-05.nyroc.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752660AbXCNBDd (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:03:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/59] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 From: Steven Rostedt To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , Andi Kleen , Glauber de Oliveira Costa In-Reply-To: References: <1173820919.28042.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:02:15 -0400 Message-Id: <1173834135.30118.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 stated > intention to actually make it be buildable as "x86", the same way that the > separate 32-bit and 64-bit POWER architectures were merged into just one > architecture that could be built either way. That's actually a larger goal, but for the immediate future, I figure this would be a good first step. Start out by stating what's similar, and then build off of this for something bigger. But in the mean time, we can have a staging ground for work that's for both i386 and x86_64 archs. And for those that know these systems in a more intimate way (Andi :) they can work off of this to make that monster. -- Steve