Hi, I grepped through the latest ML digests and didn't see any mention of these patches recently. I was wondering what the general opinion was on potentially merging them. They are both hardware support patches. I asked about the Debian kernel team maintaining them of instead linux-kernel, but met with a lack of response there. First is bigphysarea: http://pv105234.reshsg.uci.edu/~jfeise/Downloads/zr36120/ This is necessary for hardware which doesn't support scatter gather DMA. It is non invasive since it only becomes activated when the user supplies a kernel cmdline argument. I've tested the latest version and it works fine. Also, I'm wondering if it is possible to include ACPI DSDT-in-initrd patch on ACPI-supported platforms (i386, x86-64 and ia64 AFAIK). http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml This saves a user from having to rebuild the entire kernel when his firmware DSDT either has known bugs, or he is in the process of debugging it. In fact it would have saved me a whole lot of time this week. Note that this is different from the DSDT-append-to-initrd approach that was discussed previously. I think it is a better design now, but curious about your thoughts. Thanks, -- Ryan Underwood, <[email protected]>
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