linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] tools/nolibc: merge i386 and x86

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Message-ID: <d577e0ed-0cdd-4fe9-a678-9669993ee9f7@t-8ch.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:29:41 +0200
From: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, 
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] tools/nolibc: merge i386 and x86_64 into a
 single x86 arch

On 2025-06-20 12:37:03+0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> This remained the only exception to the kernel's architectures
> organization and it's always a bit cumbersome to deal with. Let's merge
> i386 and x86_64 into x86. This will result in a single arch-x86.h file
> by default, and we'll no longer need to merge the two manually during
> installation. Requesting either i386 or x86_64 will also result in
> installing x86.

We should do this in any case, independently from the series.

Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>

> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
> ---
>  tools/include/nolibc/Makefile                 |  10 +-
>  tools/include/nolibc/arch-i386.h              | 178 -----------------
>  .../nolibc/{arch-x86_64.h => arch-x86.h}      | 180 +++++++++++++++++-
>  tools/include/nolibc/arch.h                   |   6 +-
>  4 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 195 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 tools/include/nolibc/arch-i386.h
>  rename tools/include/nolibc/{arch-x86_64.h => arch-x86.h} (53%)

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