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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [RFC] modularization of i386 setup_arch and mem_init in 2.4.18
Date: 8 Mar 2002 16:00:11 -0800
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Followup to:  <20020308231609.C15106@suse.de>
By author:    Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:59:01PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>  
>  > It would be nice to see a "blessing in principle" from Marcelo and
>  > Linus before we / you start spending lots of time on this.
> 
>  When I first brought it up with hpa & Linus, I only got back
>  a reply from hpa. Whether Linus was in "I want to think about this"
>  mode or just random-drop I don't know, but I agree it's worth
>  making sure theres some degree of acceptance before doing such
>  a large change.
> 

It seems like it's the "obviously right thing" to do.  So far x86 (a
CPU architecture) has pretty much implied PC (a system architecuture),
since building a PC was the *only* reason to use x86, but that's
changing quickly.

	-hpa

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