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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:18:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
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To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling
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On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:30:29PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
>  >  arch/i386/kernel/edd.c           |  522 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  >  arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c    |    6 
>  >  arch/i386/kernel/setup.c         |   20 +
> 
> Something that's been bothering me for a while, has been the
> proliferation of 'driver' type things appearing in arch/i386/kernel/
> My initial thought was to move the various CPU related 'drivers'
> (msr,cpuid,bluesmoke,microcode) to arch/i386/cpu/  [1]
> but I'm now wondering if an arch/i386/driver/ would be a better alternative.
> 
> Opinions?

Then again, drivers/char has some x86 specific drivers too (e.g. RNGs), 
perhaps it really should get dumped in drivers/

	Zwane
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