Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:17:53 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] kill i386 and x86_64 directories |
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Sam,
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > This series kill the old i386 and x86_64 directories. > The relevant files are moved and adapted and > Kconfig.debug was consolidated (thanks to Randy). > > I had to modify both the top-lvel Makefile and the kconfig > Makefile to accomplish this. It was done in such a way that > it is trivial for other archs to use the same mechanism > should they have the need. > > To solve the defconfig issue (i386 and x86_64 cannot share one) > the arch/x86/configs/ directory were introduced. This has > been used by other archs for some time now but x86 had not had > the need until now. > > The Kconfig files could be consolidated much more - I only > did the minimal changes to make it work in the new place.
Thanks for doing this.
I think the last remaining bit to cleanup is the symlink from arch/x86/boot/bzImage. Now that the old directories are gone it does not make much sense to keep them alive. Andrew will survive it :)
Please send it Linus wards and feel free to add my Acked-by to all of them.
Thanks,
tglx
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