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SubjectRe: SLRAM patch to use non-cached RAM as swap/ramdisk
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
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