From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 20:33:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 20:33:51 -0400 Received: from host194.steeleye.com ([216.33.1.194]:57611 "EHLO pogo.mtv1.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 20:33:50 -0400 Message-Id: <200205270033.g4R0Xfh02221@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: davej@suse.de, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com Subject: [PATCH] i386 arch subdivision into machine types for 2.5.18 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 20:33:41 -0400 From: James Bottomley X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This code rearranges the arch/i386 directory structure to allow for sliding additional non-pc hardware in here in an easily separable (and thus easily maintainable) fashion. The idea is that all the code for the particular problem hardware should be able to go in a separate directory with only additional build options in config.in. The current patch really only pulls out the visws code from the core and places it into a separate directory (sort of a simple example case). This code is essentially just an up-port of the previously announced 2.5.15 version. In particular, I haven't added the extra documentation that I need to make the way the hooks work transparent to the interested user. I'm currently marking time until Linus applies the Mochel setup/cpu split patches from the -dj tree and I can merge my code with it. The 144k diff file is at: http://www.hansenpartnership.com/voyager/files/arch-split-2.5.18.diff There's also a bitkeeper repository with all this in at http://linux-voyager.bkbits.net/arch-split-2.5 James Bottomley