[PATCH] Revert x86: add lapic_shutdown for x86_64

Hiroshi Shimamoto h-shimamoto at ct.jp.nec.com
Mon Oct 29 20:05:17 EDT 2007


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:39:46 -0700
> Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto at ct.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> 
>> lapic_shutdown is useless on x86_64.
>>
> 
> .... but since the goal is to get apic_32.c and apic_64.c to be more
> converging (to the point of becoming the same file)... isn't your patch
> going in the opposite direction?
> 
Hmm, I'm not sure that this revert affects x86 unification.
Vivek said that probably we don't have to introduce lapic_shutdown() for 64bit.
So I submitted this patch which reverts my previous post, it was applied before
the comment.

Thanks
Hiroshi Shimamoto



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