From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] module to support ACPI AML calls to native firmware
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:49:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709190949.32750.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A0274F144@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-11 23:14 [RFC] module to support ACPI AML calls to native firmware Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-11 23:15 ` [patch 1/2] ia64: change SAL wrappers from macros to functions and export them Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-11 23:16 ` [patch 2/2] ia64: add driver for ACPI methods to call native firmware Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-12 8:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-09-12 9:48 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-09-12 16:50 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-13 23:11 ` [RFC] module to support ACPI AML calls to " Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-18 23:53 ` Luck, Tony
2007-09-19 15:49 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
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