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

[Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>]

* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@goodmis.org) 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 found that there is no clean way to share code
> between x86_64 and i386.

Thanks for taking this on.  I'm sure Andi has a bunch of ideas on this
topic, but it would be nice to see the consolidation.

> So the move patches are a simple move of one file, with the slight exception 
> of files that hold the speedstep-lib.h file.  This file was moved from the
> arch/i386/kerne/cpu/cpufreq directory and put into the include/asm-i386
> directory.  This was due to the fact that some of the moved files included
> it, and some files that were not moved also included it. Instead of using
> the #include "../../x86/" hack again, I just simply moved it to the global
> i386 include directory.  Only the arch/x86 will use the include/asm-i386

what about asm-x86/ dir?  the asm/ symlink would still point to relevant
arch, but the file there could be simply #include <asm-x86/file.h> ?

thanks,
-chris