Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jun 1999 12:27:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | Re: SLRAM patch to use non-cached RAM as swap/ramdisk |
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On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Pavel Machek wrote: > > >> > Where can I get the patches for using extra RAM as swap/ramdisk? > >> > I've got an extra 32M stick just sitting here. > >> [...] > >> > Why are the patches to allow the extra RAM not built into the > >> > kernel in the first place? > >> > >> probably because the author has not sent them to linux-kernel/Linus? > > > >I'm co-responsible for those patches, and they surely were sent to both > >linux-kernel and linus. (I'm not using them anymore, so I do not care, > >anymore :-) > > Well, could I persuade you to care long enough to send them > again? ;o) I've also written to the person (who's name escapes > me at the moment) who's email address is on the page the slram > patches are hosted on.
Brad Keryan is the person maintaining the patches: keryan@andrew.cmu.edu
> I'd really like to see this useful patch make it into the kernel > source, unless there is some major reason to leave it out. Even
Agreed.
> Are you interested or willing to maintain the patch still? Is > anyone? If not, I'm willing to go over the source and try to > understand it. If I can understand it, and it could potentially > be included in the kernel, I'm willing to give a shot at doing > so, and maintaining it afterwards.
Can you please discuss with Brad his plans for the patches; he is the current maintainer and has been quite responsible and responsive to email, IMO.
thanks, -bp -- # Software Development, WatchGuard Inc. # Projects, PGP key at http://www.terran.org/~bryan
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