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SubjectRe: [PATCH] i386 arch subdivision into machine types for 2.5.8
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:51:12PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> I agree with both of these. The main problem with the memory setup calls is
> that most of them are static. I could export them and do overrides, like I do
> for everything else, but as someone who also debugs the kernel, I like static
> functions because they tell me the use is tightly isolated. I could easily do
> two files, it was just looking more messy.
>
> I'll see if I can export some of the setup.c internals and re-arrange this in
> a more orderly way.

I think this is where Patrick Mochel's recent work in that area is going to
come in handy. setup.c has been nicely abstracted out into seperate
parts, that should make things a little easier.

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