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i386 arch subdivision into machine types

From:  James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To:  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject:  [PATCH 2.5.24] i386 arch subdivision into machine types
Date:  Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:53:35 -0400
Cc::  davej@suse.de, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com

This code rearranges the arch/i386 directory structure to allow for sliding additional non-pc hardware in here in an easily separable (and thus easily maintainable) fashion. The idea is that all the code for the particular problem hardware should be able to go in a separate directory with only additional build options in config.in. The current patch really only pulls out the visws code from the core and places it into a separate directory (sort of a simple example case). It also creates a generic directory (for standard x86 PCs) with all of the hooks documented. The current patch moves mpparse.c back into arch/i386/kernel with it's own subordinate config option and upports to 2.5.24. http://www.hansenpartnership.com/voyager/files/arch-split-2.5.24.diff There's also a bitkeeper repository with all this in at http://linux-voyager.bkbits.net/arch-split-2.5 James Bottomley - 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/

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