Re: bigphysarea and DSDT-initrd patches

2006-03-12 Thread dann frazier
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 13:56 -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 09:38:58AM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > > > hey Ryan, > > Your best bet is to continue to push for upstream acceptance: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines > > What about the f

Re: bigphysarea and DSDT-initrd patches

2006-03-12 Thread Ryan Underwood
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 09:38:58AM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > hey Ryan, > Your best bet is to continue to push for upstream acceptance: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines What about the fact that bigphysarea was included in Debian's 2.4 kernel? That causes

Re: bigphysarea and DSDT-initrd patches

2006-03-12 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 23:45 -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote: > Hi debian-kernel, > > I asked a little while ago why Debian doesn't include the bigphysarea > patch: > http://pv105234.reshsg.uci.edu/~jfeise/Downloads/zr36120/ > This is necessary for hardware which doesn't support scatter gather DMA. > I

bigphysarea and DSDT-initrd patches

2006-03-07 Thread Ryan Underwood
Hi debian-kernel, I asked a little while ago why Debian doesn't include the bigphysarea patch: http://pv105234.reshsg.uci.edu/~jfeise/Downloads/zr36120/ This is necessary for hardware which doesn't support scatter gather DMA. I asked linux-kernel why they don't merge it, and received no answer. I