Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Sat Jul 21 2007 - 01:51:54 EST




> On Saturday 21 July 2007 01:55, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> >
> > I really like this idea - code duplication is a bad thing.
>
> Did you actually look at the patch? It doesn't have a single line
> less duplication than there was before. Everything that could
> be easily shared was shared already.
>
> It's just new window dressing without any real advantages.

And did you read what tglx wrote?

This patch was the beginning of the merger, not the end result. It strived
for binary identical images. It was to put everything together as a
_starting_point_! The next thing to do after this is to start the
merging.

-- Steve

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