Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/59] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64

[Rusty Russell]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 11:12 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:39:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > 
> > > What we have currently is a bunch of hacks.  Seems that people can't make
> > > up their mind to what to do.
> 
> I think they work fine.

My first instinct was to agree with Andi, or maybe have a "shared"
directory a-la x86/.  But I had a fruitful discussion with the PowerPC
people, who went through (and are still completing) the transition to
one directory.

Their verdict, surprisingly, was definitely positive.  They started with
a single powerpc dir which simply included ppc64/ or ppc/, then pulled
parts into that directory until ppc64/ was gone.  The things left in
ppc/ are being slowly merged, and some may be dropped entirely.

They can obviously speak for themselves, but the cleanup caused by the
movement was seen as a net win.

Rusty.


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