linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:59:47 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Michael Opdenacker <michael-lists@...e-electrons.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux-tiny@...enic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors

Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> 
> Also note that for the sake of convenience and consistency
> between 32 and 64 bit, I move the declaration of force_mwait
> from kernel/cpu/amd.c to kernel/setup_32.c 
> (force_mwait is already defined in kernel/setup_64.c).
> 

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This is the totally wrong thing to do.  The CPU initialization stuff 
should move *into* the CPU directory (unification based on the 
cleaned-up 32-bit code, not on the 64-bit code which is based on a fork 
of the pre-cleanup 32-bit code.)

	-hpa
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