linux-kernel - Re: x86: unify genapic code, unify subarchitectures, remove old subarchitecture code

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Message-ID: <498219C0.8070207@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:04:00 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: x86: unify genapic code, unify subarchitectures, remove old 
 subarchitecture code

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
>> Also bigsmp is kind of obsolete too, it could be probably
>> merged with default with very tiny impact because it's not
>> all that different.
> 
> yes bigsmp should not be treated non-standard.
> 

Yes, but one step at a time, please.  First let's clean up the subarch 
mess, and then we can worry about reunifying the operations that remain.

	-hpa

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