Re: [PATCH 2.6.17] Clean up and refactor i386 sub-architecture setup

[Zachary Amsden]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote:
> > This looks awesome.   Are there any plans to get these 
> > sub-architectures to work with the generic subarch?  Seems the next 
> > logical step would be putting each mach-*/*.o into separated namespaces.
>
> I haven't looked at that.  This patch was intended to be a very simple 
> uncontroversial rearrangement, in preparation for the Xen subarch, and 
> to just clean up a corner of the kernel which seems to have gotten a 
> bit warty.  Chris just sent me your patches from March which look like 
> they cover a lot of the same ground, but I haven't looked at them in 
> detail yet.

This is cleaner than the patches I sent in March, although we want to 
re-use parts of the mach-default code, not replace it entirely.  Hence 
my interest in the multi-subarch generic kernel.  I'd be glad to look 
into it.

Zach
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