Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [RFC] modularization of i386 setup_arch and mem_init in 2.4.18

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 19:00:11 EST


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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