linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] kill i386 and x86

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Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:17:53 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kill i386 and x86_64 directories

Sam,

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> This series kill the old i386 and x86_64 directories.
> The relevant files are moved and adapted and
> Kconfig.debug was consolidated (thanks to Randy).
> 
> I had to modify both the top-lvel Makefile and the kconfig
> Makefile to accomplish this. It was done in such a way that
> it is trivial for other archs to use the same mechanism
> should they have the need.
> 
> To solve the defconfig issue (i386 and x86_64 cannot share one)
> the arch/x86/configs/ directory were introduced. This has
> been used by other archs for some time now but x86 had not had
> the need until now.
> 
> The Kconfig files could be consolidated much more - I only
> did the minimal changes to make it work in the new place.

Thanks for doing this.

I think the last remaining bit to cleanup is the symlink from
arch/x86/boot/bzImage. Now that the old directories are gone it does
not make much sense to keep them alive. Andrew will survive it :)

Please send it Linus wards and feel free to add my Acked-by to all of
them.

Thanks,

	tglx

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