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FromLen Brown <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3
DateWed, 31 Jan 2007 02:57:33 -0500
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 04:26, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Len, what was in that merge anyway?  Lots of renaming and shuffling things
> around - the sorts of things which are safe as long as they compile OK.  But
> was there much substantive material in there as well?

The big thing was the new table manager.
Linux used to have multiple copies of the ACPI tables -- sometimes inconsistent.
Now, we use a single copy of each table.
Indeed, with the exception of the FADT -- where we need to convert multiple
versions into a single version, we map the tables directly where the BIOS
gives them to us and thus don't allocate any memory for them at all.

cheers,
-Len
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