Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Sep 2002 13:20:44 -0500 (CDT) | From | Kai Germaschewski <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling |
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On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:30:29PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > > arch/i386/kernel/edd.c | 522 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c | 6 > > arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 20 + > > Something that's been bothering me for a while, has been the > proliferation of 'driver' type things appearing in arch/i386/kernel/ > My initial thought was to move the various CPU related 'drivers' > (msr,cpuid,bluesmoke,microcode) to arch/i386/cpu/ [1] > but I'm now wondering if an arch/i386/driver/ would be a better alternative.
Let me add that there are currently two places where arch specific drivers appear, eg:
arch/{cris,um}/drivers/ and drivers/{s390,macintosh,acorn}/
I think it'd be nice to decide on one way or the other. The first place has the advantage of putting all arch-specific stuff into one place, the second one makes it (IMO) cleaner to share drivers between e.g. s390 and s390x, or possibly i386/x86_64 in the future.
--Kai
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