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SubjectRe: x86 merge - a little feedback
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

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Adrian

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