linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch 00/32] x86: Refactor the setup code to provide a base for embedded platforms

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Message-ID: <4A8F1D5A.5030501@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:19:06 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 team <x86@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arjan van de Veen <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Alok N Kataria <akataria@...are.com>,
	Pan Jacob jun <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 00/32] x86: Refactor the setup code to provide a base
 for	embedded platforms

On 08/21/09 14:29, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The following patch series refactors the setup related x86_quirks and
> the setup related paravirt hooks and puts them into an extensible
> platform_setup infrastructure to provide a proper base for adding the
> Moorestown modifications. As a side effect it also unifies
> time_32/64.c and removes some leftovers of the pre arch/x86 era.
>   

I haven't gone through the patches at all yet, but I definitely like
this direction.  I've got some local patches to generalize x86_quirks a
bit, and I'm hoping that you've already subsumed them; if not, it should
be easy to extend on top of your patches.

    J
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