Re: [RFC] module to support ACPI AML calls to native firmware

Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-19T15:49:32Z

On Tuesday 18 September 2007 05:53:28 pm Luck, Tony wrote:
> > If you don't object to the two patches, can you incorporate them
> > as originally posted? If you'd prefer a different approach, I'd
> > be happy to rework them, of course.
>
> I think that adding 4K to the kernel (about 0.04% increase looking
> at a recent build ... or 0.0001% of total memory on a 4G system) isn't
> really a big deal. I'd rather do that than export all the fw_call_*()
> functions for all the world to see.

That's certainly the most straightforward solution. I'll post those
patches in a bit.

Bjorn