linux-kernel - Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

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Message-Id: <1184197692.12353.197.camel@chaos>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:48:12 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

Andi,

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 01:36 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The same is true of a lot of the APIC timer code. Sure, that patch has the 
> > actual conversion in it, and you don't have the cross-architecture issues, 
> > but more than 50% of the patch seems to be just cleanup that is 
> > independent of the actual switch-over, no?
> 
> I don't think it's that much cleanup. One of my goals for x86-64 was always
> to have it support modern x86 only; this means in particularly most of the
> old bug workaround removed. With the APIC timer merging a lot of that crap
> gets back in.
> 
> I would prefer to keep APIC code separate.

Care to look at the patch ? It _IS_ seperate.

Only HPET and PIT got shared.

	tglx


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