Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:51:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86 |
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote: > > > > > I agree with Andi... it's quite nice to be able to leave some arch/i386 > > > stuff, and not carry it over to arch/x86-64. > > > > we can leave those few items in arch/x86 just as much. No need to keep > > around a legacy tree for that. > > By extension it makes doing that sort of thing, in general, more difficult. > Which is IMO not desirable.
I think it's *much* harder to carry legacy things around in an old tree that almost nobody even uses any more (probably not true yet, but for most of the main developers, I bet it will be true in a year). Especially one that just duplicates 99% of the stuff.
There really isn't that much legacy crud. There are things like random quirks, but every time I hear the (theoretical) argument about how much time and effort we save by having it duplicated somewhere else, I think about all the time we definitely waste by fixing the same bug twice (and worry about the cases where we don't).
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