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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:28:12 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, david@...g.hm,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)
Thomas - what is way forward here?
I consider the patch serie ready to be applied and I
leave it to you (x86 guys) to decide the way forward to mainline.
cleanup -> mm -> linus or straight to linus.
If there is any concerns (from you or others) please let
me know so we can get it fixed.
And I certainly hope that this serie brings no bugs to the kernel
but rather makes it easier to fix bugs..
Sam
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:54:51PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> This revised patchset does the followings things:
>
> o unify the i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files
> o introduce support for K64BIT to set CONFIG_64BIT on command line
> o introdue support for "make ARCH=x86"
> o degraded ARCH={i386,x86_64} to select between 32/64 for all*targets
> and otherwise just selecting the x86 architecture
>
> I suggest we should merge this despite being at -rc2 so we can start
> teaching distributors to use "ARCH=x86" - but I leave it to the
> x86 Maintainers to decide.
>
> I have always thought that the x86 merge could not be considered ready
> until we could do a "make ARCH=x86" becasue it is so intuitive
> if you have not typed "make ARCH=i386" one thousand times.
>
>
> Based on feedback from previous submissions the following have changed:
> - The backwards compatibility links are kept
> - The backwards compatibility ARCH={i386,x86_64} are kept but degraded
> to select 32/64 bit during configuration for all*config targets.
> - ARCH={i386,x86_64} are not broken by any patches so bisect will
> not choke
> - patchset shrinked to 13 logical patches
>
>
> With this change we have a setup where we have a common Kconfig
> for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 like all other architectures.
> And we can configure and build a kernel using ARCH="name of arch dir"
>
> As an added bonus "make update-po-config" is fixed :-)
>
> The diffstat tells it own story:
> 19 files changed, 684 insertions(+), 1235 deletions(-)
>
> And this is with new functionality added...
>
> The patches explained...
>
> Unification of Kconfig.i386 + Kconfig.x86_64:
> x86: unification of cfufreq/Kconfig
> x86: start unification of arch/x86/Kconfig.*
> x86: arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu unification
> x86: add X86_32 dependency to i386 specific symbols in Kconfig.i386
> x86: add X86_64 dependency to x86_64 specific symbols in Kconfig.x86_64
> x86: copy x86_64 specific Kconfig symbols to Kconfig.i386
> x86: move all simple arch settings to Kconfig
> x86: move the rest of the menu's to Kconfig
>
> Adding support for K64BIT=y on commandline
> kconfig: factor out code in confdata.c
> kconfig: add helper to set config symbol from environment variable
> kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*config targets
>
> Preparational patch that just clean up a few bits in x86:
> x86: do not use $(ARCH) when not needed
>
> Introducing "make ARCH=x86"
> x86: enable "make ARCH=x86"
>
> After the preparation then introducing "make ARCH=x86" actually
> deleted more lines than is added (last patch):
> 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>
>
> The patchset is available at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/x86.git
>
> Patches will be sent to lkml for another review round.
>
> Sam
>
>
> Diffstat:
>
> Makefile | 13 +-
> README | 2 +
> arch/x86/{Kconfig.i386 => Kconfig} | 567 ++++++++++----
> arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | 121 ++--
> arch/x86/Kconfig.x86_64 | 839 --------------------
> arch/x86/Makefile | 10 +-
> arch/x86/Makefile_32 | 8 +-
> arch/x86/Makefile_64 | 8 +-
> arch/x86/boot/Makefile | 6 +-
> arch/x86/boot/cpucheck.c | 6 -
> arch/x86/kernel/Makefile_32 | 3 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/Makefile_64 | 2 +
> .../x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/{Kconfig_32 => Kconfig} | 69 ++-
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig_64 | 108 ---
> arch/x86/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
> scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 7 +-
> scripts/kconfig/conf.c | 1 +
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 146 +++--
> scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h | 1 +
> 19 files changed, 684 insertions(+), 1235 deletions(-)
>
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