From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: miket@bluemug.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 00:14:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010708001424.B10370@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107040956310.1668-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <9i6oga$jk1$1@pccross.average.org> <3B46F3CE.9002ABAB@mandrakesoft.com> <20010707144032.C19529@mayotte> <20010707235329.A10256@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <20010707150422.D19529@mayotte>
In-Reply-To: <20010707150422.D19529@mayotte>; from miket@bluemug.com on Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 03:04:22PM -0700
Mike Touloumtzis wrote:
> > Yes that would work, and it would work on machines with less RAM too.
> > You would want to remove the cramfs filesystem code when you're done though.
>
> Some of the files in the boot time FS would need to
> be kept around, such as the ACPI code, right?
Perhaps. They could be copied to a ramfs by the user-space code :-)
On this theme, it's just occured to me that the module loader could be
taught to map ramfs pages directly to module code/data space. That
would save a little memory.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-07 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-04 10:37 [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems Dave J Woolley
2001-07-04 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-04 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-05 8:20 ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-05 8:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-05 11:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-05 13:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-05 15:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-06 7:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-06 8:45 ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-06 11:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-06 12:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-09 23:05 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-07 10:32 ` Eugene Crosser
2001-07-07 11:32 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-07 13:37 ` Eugene Crosser
2001-07-07 13:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 17:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-07 21:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-08 7:26 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-08 16:46 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-09 14:40 ` Anthony DeBoer
2001-07-07 21:44 ` Steve VanDevender
2001-07-07 11:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 21:40 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 21:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:00 ` arjan
2001-07-07 22:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:04 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 22:14 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2001-07-08 2:57 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-12 15:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-12 16:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-12 21:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-06 5:26 Andreas Dilger
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