Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

> The same is true of a lot of the APIC timer code. Sure, that patch has the 
> actual conversion in it, and you don't have the cross-architecture issues, 
> but more than 50% of the patch seems to be just cleanup that is 
> independent of the actual switch-over, no?

I don't think it's that much cleanup. One of my goals for x86-64 was always
to have it support modern x86 only; this means in particularly most of the
old bug workaround removed. With the APIC timer merging a lot of that crap
gets back in.

I would prefer to keep APIC code separate.

-Andi
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