Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:29:33 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH take3 00/20] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 3 |
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> Once again here's an attempt to put the shared files of x86_64 and > i386 into a separate directory.
what do you think about the idea i suggested: to do an x32_/x64_ prefix (or _32/_64 postfix), in a brute-force way, _right away_. I.e. do not have any overlap of having both arch/i386/ and arch/x86_64/ and arch/x86/ - move everything to arch/x86/ right now.
in the initial step we dont even have to attempt to share anything - we just want to make sure everything still works fine. Just create a 'unified' layout with the prefix/postfix solution, and make sure that the build architecture can compile existing .configs just fine, which results in a functionally identical vmlinux that would be built if these files were still in arch/i386/ (and arch/x86_64/).
i dont think we want to have a too long 'overlap' period. Lets just unify them, that would be the only large-scale intrusive move.
From that point on, the unification decisions would be largely per-file: "do we want to unify process_32.c and process_64.c into the same file?".
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