On Tuesday 30 January 2007 04:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Len, what was in that merge anyway? Lots of renaming and shuffling things
> around - the sorts of things which are safe as long as they compile OK. But
> was there much substantive material in there as well?
The big thing was the new table manager.
Linux used to have multiple copies of the ACPI tables -- sometimes inconsistent.
Now, we use a single copy of each table.
Indeed, with the exception of the FADT -- where we need to convert multiple
versions into a single version, we map the tables directly where the BIOS
gives them to us and thus don't allocate any memory for them at all.
cheers,
-Len
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
