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SubjectRe: [Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86 - V2
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:56:22PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> We are pleased to announce v2 of the unified arch/x86 project we are
> working on.
>
> To recap: the core idea behind our project is simple to describe: we
> introduce a new arch/x86/ and include/asm-x86/ file hierarchy that
> includes all the existing 32-bit and 64-bit x86 code and allows the
> building of either a 32-bit (i386) kernel or a 64-bit (x86_64) kernel.
> No code is lost and almost no code is modified. We want the window
> for regressions and tree incompatibilities to be zero. (The full initial
> announcement can be found at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/447)
>
> The main technical request for improvement we received was the lack of a
> patch-series, and this v2 release does that, in form of a 600+ commits
> git tree:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86.git

Nice work. cpufreq bits look sane from a quick eyeball.

Dave

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