From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:49:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:49:02 -0400 Received: from host194.steeleye.com ([216.33.1.194]:11535 "EHLO pogo.mtv1.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:49:01 -0400 Message-Id: <200206131548.g5DFmv407602@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Andrey Panin Cc: James Bottomley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH: NEW SUBARCHITECTURE FOR 2.5.21] support for NCR voyager (3/4/5xxx series) In-Reply-To: Message from Andrey Panin of "Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:20:53 +0400." <20020613082053.GA614@pazke.ipt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:48:57 -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 pazke@orbita1.ru said: > Attached patch is needed to compile kernel with Voyager patch applied > for the SMP PC machine. I've applied it to my repository, thanks. I forgot to keep track of these issues in the voyager tree when I separated the arch-split stuff. > [Q1] Will it be better to create separate directory for PC > architecture and split some PC'isms from arch/i386/generic ? Right now > it contains acpi.c, bootflag.c and dmi_scan.c which are not generic in > any way :) The thinking currently is that arch/i386 is really PC plus a few exceptions rather than a truly generic x86 plus additonal machine architectures, so it makes sense under this view that `generic' and PC be the same thing. > [Q2] May be directory naming like mach-visws, mach-voyager and > possible mach-pc will be more convinent ? To be more consistent with the way arch/arm does it? Certainly the renames can be done easily enough, what does the rest of the list think? James