> >Also, it adds the possibility to free ACPI tables that are not required by
> >the BIOS anymore instantly (for those who do not want ACPI support) and
> >adds the ACPI4Linux project to the maintainers list. It should apply
> >cleanly to 2.3.16.
> I'd do this latter a bit differently; I'd tweak it so that the
> ACPI tables are reclaimed automatically iff ACPI support is not
> compiled in.
We chose to make this an extra option because it will be possible to build
parts of ACPI as a module, and this will need the tables to be still in
memory.
The option in the other direction would be possible, but I want the people
to think about that because it would discard information that could be
useful later on, for example to diagnostic tools.
Simon
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