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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 17:11, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:30:29PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
>  >  arch/i386/kernel/edd.c           |  522 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  >  arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c    |    6 
>  >  arch/i386/kernel/setup.c         |   20 +
> 
> Something that's been bothering me for a while, has been the
> proliferation of 'driver' type things appearing in arch/i386/kernel/
> My initial thought was to move the various CPU related 'drivers'
> (msr,cpuid,bluesmoke,microcode) to arch/i386/cpu/  [1]
> but I'm now wondering if an arch/i386/driver/ would be a better alternative.
> 
> Opinions?

Thats even more prevalent in things like the unmerged bits of the mips
tree. A lot of embedded processors have on chip everything - eg look at
the cirrus logic ARM chips or the Etrax.

The extra people use arch/foo/drivers



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