Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:00:21 +0200 (CEST) | From | Simon Richter <> | Subject | Re: [patch] ACPI groundbreaking stuff |
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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, david parsons wrote:
> >Also, it adds the possibility to free ACPI tables that are not required by > >the BIOS anymore instantly (for those who do not want ACPI support) and > >adds the ACPI4Linux project to the maintainers list. It should apply > >cleanly to 2.3.16.
> I'd do this latter a bit differently; I'd tweak it so that the > ACPI tables are reclaimed automatically iff ACPI support is not > compiled in.
We chose to make this an extra option because it will be possible to build parts of ACPI as a module, and this will need the tables to be still in memory.
The option in the other direction would be possible, but I want the people to think about that because it would discard information that could be useful later on, for example to diagnostic tools.
Simon
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