Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Status of ACPI PIC mode patches ? | From | Len Brown <> | Date | 31 Mar 2004 00:43:32 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 04:35, O.Sezer wrote: > Hello: > [Please CC me on replies] > > What is the status of PIC mode patches [1] by Andrew de Quincey; > are they still needed? The -ac / -pac trees still have them.
If the 1st one is needed, I want to know about it. The 2nd and 3rd have been in for a long time.
> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106280426300001&r=1&w=2 > Also see:
This is Andrew's PIC-fallback patch. This is probably the most effective and well written patch that I've refused to integrate;-) There are two reasons. 1. it works for some systems, but breaks others. 2. when it works, it hides a failure. Windows doesn't have that failure. We'd rather see the failure, fix it and have Linux work as well as Windows.
BTW. SuSE picked up this patch in SL9.0, though I don't know if they still use it.
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106280426300002&r=1&w=2
This has been in the base for about 5 months. But Luming Yu found a better way to handle this issue and his patch was integrated into 2.4 and 2.6 in the last week: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590
We'll probably delete the original retry code in an upcoming cleanup.
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106280426100003&r=1&w=2
This patch by Jun Nakajima was pulled into the base about 5 months ago. It was key to getting VIA systems to work.
cheers, -Len
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