[PATCH] Adding shared code support for ia32 and amd64 -- x86 sub-branch

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Feb 25 04:15:37 UTC 2010


In message: <3bbf2fe11002240718x5182aa93w5a00c657a0fba5f6 at mail.gmail.com>
            Attilio Rao <attilio at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: 2010/2/16 Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at 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

Looks like you didn't add the required "sys/x86" files to files.pc98.

Warner


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