linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0703142233330.1199@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:34:34 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 -
 Take 2


On Mar 14 2007 21:21, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> also, having the x32_ and x64_ prefix is a painful daily reminder for 
>> all of us changing the architecture that 'this stuff needs to be 
>> unified!'.
>
>We would probably stuck with that forever and it just looks ugly.
>Non paravirt xen uses such a setup and I always hated it.
>
>Besides the architecture is called x86_64

If you don't like x{32,64}_ suffixes, _{32,64} suffixes would also be a
possibility. powerpc/mm/init_32.c for example does it that way.


Jan
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