From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935781AbXGUKh6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:37:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756089AbXGUKhv (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:37:51 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:58827 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751162AbXGUKhu (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:37:50 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86 From: David Woodhouse To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Chris Wright , Steven Rostedt In-Reply-To: <1184970779.4012.38.camel@chaos> References: <1184970779.4012.38.camel@chaos> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:37:46 +0100 Message-Id: <1185014266.14697.136.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 (2.10.2-2.fc7.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Oooh, shiny. We've been talking about how useful this would be for years. Experience with the unification of PowerPC shows that it's definitely the right thing to do -- it reduces the number of gratuitous differences between 32-bit and 64-bit code, and makes it far more easier to ensure that bug-fixes and new features get added to both at the same time. > When should this go upstream? > ----------------------------- > > We actually think that the sooner we get over with this, the better. I'm inclined to agree. -- dwmw2