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

[Zachary Amsden]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Clean up and refactor i386 sub-architecture setup.
>
> This change moves all the code from the 
> asm-i386/mach-*/setup_arch_pre/post.h headers, into 
> arch/i386/mach-*/setup.c.  mach-*/setup_arch_pre.h is renamed to 
> setup_arch.h, and contains only things which should be in header 
> files.  It is purely code-motion; there should be no functional 
> changes at all.
>
> Several functions in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c needed to be made 
> non-static so that they're visible to the code in mach-*/setup.c. 
> asm-i386/setup.h is used to hold the prototypes for these functions.

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.

Zach
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