linux-kernel - Re: [Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86

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Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:09:51 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [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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