Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 May 2004 09:09:41 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: ACPI & 2.4 (Re: [BK PATCH] PCI Express patches for 2.4.27-pre3) |
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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:35:34AM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > Yes, the ACPI part to enable MMconfig was pretty small. > We parse a table in the standard way and set a global variable -- > that's about it. > > I submitted it to 2.4 for the sole purpose > to enable Greg to enable native PCIExpress. > > I expect demand for this in 2.4 as the major distros' > enterprise releases are still 2.4 based and the hardware has > arrived... Your call, Marcelo, if this is something to > solve in upstream 2.4 or something the distros need > to solve for themselves. I recommend leaving the > small ACPI piece of the puzzle intact in either case. > > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 08:54, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > I've humbly asked Len to stop doing big updates > > whenever possible on the > > v2.4 ACPI code, and do bugfixes only instead. Is that a pain in the > > ass for you, Len? > > > > I asked that because it is common to see new bugs introduced by an > > ACPI update, and you know that more than I do. > > At one point I released to 2.4 first because that is where > the useful testing feedback was; and then released to 2.5 > to make sure it didn't fall behind. > > Then I released to 2.4 and 2.6 simultaneously b/c > I got quick feeback from both camps. > > Now we're into the era where the release-early > release-often matra applies to 26 only (or maybe more 2.6-mm) > and 2.4 is in maintenance mode. > > I would still like to send some significant ACPI patches to 24. > Yes, they're 100% bugfixes -- sometimes bugfixes touch > lots of files too... But I'll do so only after the same > fix has been proven in 2.6 for a spell. > > With some parts of ACPI, such as the ACPICA core interpreter > this is actually pretty low risk, because that part of > the kernel is identical between 2.4 and 2.6. So if 2.6 works, > so will 2.4. > > Of course this also depends on if 2.4 will be accepting anything. > I recall talk back about 2.4.25 about the end of the 2.4 line.
Yes, wish it was. Unfortunately there still a lot of activitity from people sending me patches, which are usually fixing bugs. Not major core bugs, more "outside of the core" things (drivers and filesystems).
> I generally only have time to read LKML messages directed to me > or if the word "ACPI" appears in the message, so I may have missed > the word 2.4. What is the word?
I dont get you? What you mean? (sorry)
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