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/
