From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 22:15:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to v2.4.0-test9) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Fri, 06 Oct 2000 09:08:33 +1100, Keith Owens said: Keith> The patch contains a deletion for unistd.h~ which is not in Keith> base 2.4.0-test9. My fault, just ignore it (it was late, what can I say). Keith> It also deletes a lot of acpi files, which may cause problems Keith> if you try to compile ix86 from a source tree with Keith> ia64-001004 applied, i386 config.in does not have Keith> CONFIG_ACPI_KERNEL_CONFIG. Any reason for these deletions Keith> and other acpi changes? The ACPI code in the x86 tree is currently not compatible with what's in the IA-64 tree. So the IA-64 patch restores the ACPI files from the IA-64 tree. I don't know why or how this came to be and Intel is looking into it. (Yeah, it's a major pain...) --david