From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>,
Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [patch] VAIO irq assignment fix
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:12:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020118001244.B28183@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201171804510.23659-100000@Appserv.suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201171433260.3114-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201171433260.3114-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:35:30PM -0800
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:35:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No. Could we please integrate this not with ACPI, but with the much more
> limited "arch/i386/kernel/acpitable.c", which does NOT imply full ACPI,
> only scanning the tables for information in static format (like the irq
> routing stuff).
I was under the impression that the Intel ACPI folks had things in
mind for acpitable.c along the lines of 'rm', in favour of having
their new interpretor do a "Load, setup, get the hell out" approach
for those that didn't want it staying around.
Either way, I agree improving our ACPI support is a better solution
in the long run.
--
| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-17 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-17 0:00 [patch] VAIO irq assignment fix Jes Sorensen
2002-01-17 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-17 14:05 ` Jes Sorensen
2002-01-17 14:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-17 14:07 ` Jes Sorensen
2002-01-17 14:59 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-01-17 15:18 ` Jes Sorensen
2002-01-17 15:22 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-01-17 16:38 ` Jes Sorensen
2002-01-17 17:05 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-17 22:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-17 23:12 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-01-18 0:29 ` Ben Greear
2002-01-17 23:14 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-01-18 0:33 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-21 19:00 ` Lee Packham
2002-01-22 18:01 ` [patch] VAIO irq assignment fix ->CompactFlash-pcmcia freeze root
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-18 0:01 [patch] VAIO irq assignment fix Grover, Andrew
[not found] <fa.gd40p7v.187cd9o@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.fhsq5hv.1q2eri1@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-21 20:06 ` Manfred Spraul
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