The Plan

[Chris Emerson]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:35:07PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> (to reduce the arch/ppc/kernel clutter, that is)
>
> This is what I am thinking of; I have implemented it locally here and
> I'm doing test compiles with arch/ppc/configs/*.
>
> - arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_asm.h moves to include/asm-ppc, and the contents
>   of ppc_asm.tmpl get folded into it, with corresponding changes to
>   arch/ppc/*/*.S.

This sounds like a good thing for the user-mode port, which tries to use
a couple of the assembler files from arch/ppc.  There's some hideous symlink
hackery going on to get them to work at the moment.  If it's all just in
include/asm-ppc, that should be much nicer.

Cheers,

Chris

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