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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:54:40 +0200
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@sandvine.com>
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Adding shared code support for ia32 and amd64 -- x86 sub-branch
Message-ID:  <20100216195440.GF50403@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <3bbf2fe11002151610l41526f55r5e60b5e46ce42b64@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <3bbf2fe11002151610l41526f55r5e60b5e46ce42b64@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 01:10:37AM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote:
> The following patch:
> http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/x86.diff
>=20
> starts the effort for having a shared sub-tree between amd64 and ia32.
> In this initial pass I putted the low-hanging fruits (bios/cpufreq)
> and what my customer was more interested in (isa/*) in order to
> kick-off the effort and, in the future, move gradually the code there.
> With the machine/isa/* cleanup about 10 files are trimmed and I'm sure
> more can be achieved easilly.
> There are few things to discuss. One, that I had not necessity to dig
> about still, is about how to organize headers (include/). Maybe some
> replication ala pc98 may be good.
>=20
> The patch is big but it is mostly added and removed files (look at the
> files.X in order to understand better how files movements happened).
>=20
> Hope to see comments and reviews.

IMO the diff is unreadable. I suggest to do actual svn cp (not svn mv)
operation now, without a review, and post a diff that should be applied
to x86/ directory, as well as to build glue.

The small proposition I have is to #define read_eflags() read_rflags()
for amd64.

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