On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Matteo Centonza wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > > On 06/25/03 14:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:19:08PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > > > >> On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 15:56, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > > >> > Anyone know if/when the cvs snapshots will cleanly apply against
> > > > >> > the
> > > > >> > 2.4.22-pre1 kernel? I'd really like to use it, as the acpi
> > > > >> > support is
> > > > >> > significantly better than what was in 2.4.21(-final).
> > > > >> >
> > >
> > > why not applying the acpi patch only?
> > >
> > > They have a pretty acpi-20030619-2.4.21.diff.gz on
> > > www.sf.net/projects/acpi
> >
> > What do you mean by 'only'? That is the patch that i tried to apply,
> > however i don't even think its neccesary in 2.4.22-pre1, because its
> > already been updated with the same patches.
>
> as i've understood it, if you're interested only in new acpi
> features of 2.4.22-pre1 (and of course in XFS), you can download the
> current XFS cvs kernel (2.4.21 based) and apply the latest acpi
> patch (against 2.4.21).
>
> This merge should have the acpi bits you want.
>
> You have to resolve 1 trivial reject (induced by KDB) in
> arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
How trivial are we talking about? My C is about as good as 'hello world'
:)
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