Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933901AbXHVXMy (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:12:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763246AbXHVXMp (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:12:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:46591 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763120AbXHVXMp (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:12:45 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:09:51 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Chris Wright , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86 - V2 Message-ID: <20070822230951.GI17546@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Chris Wright , Steven Rostedt References: <1187819782.3316.8.camel@chaos> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1187819782.3316.8.camel@chaos> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1253 Lines: 29 On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:56:22PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > We are pleased to announce v2 of the unified arch/x86 project we are > working on. > > To recap: the core idea behind our project is simple to describe: we > introduce a new arch/x86/ and include/asm-x86/ file hierarchy that > includes all the existing 32-bit and 64-bit x86 code and allows the > building of either a 32-bit (i386) kernel or a 64-bit (x86_64) kernel. > No code is lost and almost no code is modified. We want the window > for regressions and tree incompatibilities to be zero. (The full initial > announcement can be found at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/447) > > The main technical request for improvement we received was the lack of a > patch-series, and this v2 release does that, in form of a 600+ commits > git tree: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86.git Nice work. cpufreq bits look sane from a quick eyeball. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/