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    SubjectRe: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86
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    On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 10:15 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
    > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 07:37 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
    > > On Saturday 21 July 2007 00:32, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
    > > > We are pleased to announce a project we've been working on for some
    > > > time: the unified x86 architecture tree, or "arch/x86" - and we'd like
    > > > to solicit feedback about it.
    > >
    > > Well you know my position on this. I think it's a bad idea because
    > > it means we can never get rid of any old junk. IMNSHO arch/x86_64
    > > is significantly cleaner and simpler in many ways than arch/i386 and I would
    > > like to preserve that. Also in general arch/x86_64 is much easier to hack
    > > than arch/i386 because it's easier to regression test and in general
    > > has to care about much less junk. And I don't
    > > know of any way to ever fix that for i386 besides splitting the old
    > > stuff off completely.
    >
    > I disagree of course.
    >
    > I worked on both trees quite intensive over the last years and I broke
    > x86_64 more than once when hacking on i386 and vice versa.

    Me too.

    At the very least I'd like to see asm-x86/ for headers used by both.

    That said, the merge is exactly as I'd have done it. So if this were a
    democracy, I'd vote in favour.

    Cheers,
    Rusty.

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