Re: [RFC] module to support ACPI AML calls to native firmware

2007-09-19 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 05:53:28 pm Luck, Tony wrote: If you don't object to the two patches, can you incorporate them as originally posted? If you'd prefer a different approach, I'd be happy to rework them, of course. I think that adding 4K to the kernel (about 0.04% increase

RE: [RFC] module to support ACPI AML calls to native firmware

2007-09-18 Thread Luck, Tony
If you don't object to the two patches, can you incorporate them as originally posted? If you'd prefer a different approach, I'd be happy to rework them, of course. I think that adding 4K to the kernel (about 0.04% increase looking at a recent build ... or 0.0001% of total memory on a 4G

Re: [RFC] module to support ACPI AML calls to native firmware

2007-09-13 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 05:14:56 pm Bjorn Helgaas wrote: ... So I'm interested in feedback on the following patches, which do not export sal_lock, but rather export functions that can be used to call SAL or other native firmware interfaces. Hi Tony, I haven't heard much feedback, and I

[RFC] module to support ACPI AML calls to native firmware

2007-09-11 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
Here are a couple patches on which I'd like some feedback. The basic idea is that ACPI AML methods sometimes need to do something that is already implemented as a SAL interface. ACPI doesn't provide a way for an AML method to directly call the SAL interface. That means firmware writers