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

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Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:02:15 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/59] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 14:39 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > What we have currently is a bunch of hacks.  Seems that people can't make
> > up their mind to what to do.
> 
> I don't mind the patches, but I'd be a lot happier if it also was a stated 
> intention to actually make it be buildable as "x86", the same way that the 
> separate 32-bit and 64-bit POWER architectures were merged into just one 
> architecture that could be built either way.

That's actually a larger goal, but for the immediate future, I figure
this would be a good first step.  Start out by stating what's similar,
and then build off of this for something bigger.  But in the mean time,
we can have a staging ground for work that's for both i386 and x86_64
archs. And for those that know these systems in a more intimate way
(Andi :) they can work off of this to make that monster.

-- Steve

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