Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:18:34 +0100 From: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@sandvine.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adding shared code support for ia32 and amd64 -- x86 sub-branch Message-ID: <3bbf2fe11002240718x5182aa93w5a00c657a0fba5f6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100216195440.GF50403@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <3bbf2fe11002151610l41526f55r5e60b5e46ce42b64@mail.gmail.com> <20100216195440.GF50403@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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2010/2/16 Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 01:10:37AM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote: >> The following patch: >> http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/x86.diff >> >> starts the effort for having a shared sub-tree between amd64 and ia32. >> In this initial pass I putted the low-hanging fruits (bios/cpufreq) >> and what my customer was more interested in (isa/*) in order to >> kick-off the effort and, in the future, move gradually the code there. >> With the machine/isa/* cleanup about 10 files are trimmed and I'm sure >> more can be achieved easilly. >> There are few things to discuss. One, that I had not necessity to dig >> about still, is about how to organize headers (include/). Maybe some >> replication ala pc98 may be good. >> >> The patch is big but it is mostly added and removed files (look at the >> files.X in order to understand better how files movements happened). >> >> Hope to see comments and reviews. > > IMO the diff is unreadable. I suggest to do actual svn cp (not svn mv) > operation now, without a review, and post a diff that should be applied > to x86/ directory, as well as to build glue. I think that this patch juices out all the relevant part without noise: http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/x86-2.diff Thanks, Attilio -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein
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