Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:34:13 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: x86 merge - a little feedback |
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:12:19PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >... > In a meged x86 tree it would be very beneficial to either include > in the filename that a specific file is i386 or x86_64 specific or > stuff them in a separate subdirectory. > > If legacy.c numa.c, pcibios.c and visws.c placed in a directory named i386 > then it would be obvious that this is i386 only. > Or they could be named filename_32 (or the uglier filename_i386). > As it stands out today the filename are kept but thier relationship are lost. >...
I'm not agreeing with you on this.
It seems artificial to think 32bit<->64bit was the only interesting distinction on x86 machines.
You might as well create different directories for i386<->i486+ or pre-i686<->i686+.
As an example, visws.c is as much non-64bit as it is pre-i686.
> Sam
cu Adrian
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