Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: amilo-rfkill: unsupported platform | | From | Ben Hutchings <> | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:46:01 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 14:12 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote: > Hi Ben, > > You have recently submitted a new rfkill driver for the Amilo A1655 and > M7440 models. We have been using the fsam7400 driver[1] for the Amilo > M7440 and it would probably make sense to merge it into the amilo-rfkill. > > However, the fsam7400 driver directly invokes BIOS code in order to turn > on/off the radio, instead of the methods used by the A1655 and M7440 > driver.
Consistency, it's a wonderful thing.
> This means the memory pages with the BIOS code would need to be > set as executable after the ioremap (which is probably a bad idea). > > Are there any plans of merging this driver into the amilo-rfkill driver?
I have no plans for this, but feel free to try it.
Ben.
> [1] http://www.iragan.com/linux/fsam7400/
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