Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:53:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:53:16 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:23566 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:53:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] modularization of i386 setup_arch and mem_init in 2.4.18 To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:08:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: davej@suse.de (Dave Jones), gone@us.ibm.com (Patricia Gaughen), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: from "Eric W. Biederman" at Mar 10, 2002 12:42:15 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I will tenatively vote in favor of this kind of action. There > are a couple of directions to consider. This is a two dimensional > problem. That should not be suprising > Dimension 1. Different basic hardware architectures. > (pc,numaq,visws,voyager) (and others upcoming) > Dimension 2. Different firmware implementations. > (pcbios,linuxbios,openfirmware,acpi?) i386-pc-pcbios Maybe autoconf got the concept right. You don't neccessarily want to think of it as a grid though. A lot of the stuff is i386-*-pcbios and i386-pc-* Alan - 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/