[Syllable-kernel] Arno's kernel patches

[Jake H. <jh...@po...>]

Did Arno Klenke release his kernel patches to anyone in source form?  I 
have his latest kernel.so and the patches from Dec. 30, but nothing 
else.  I sent him a private e-mail so I'm sure I'll hear back from him soon.

Also, what is the verdict as far as the stability of Arno's patches? 
Did the Jan. 23 patch removing the cli()/put_cpu_flags() calls make 
things better or worse?  I'm concerned about Vander's reports of 
instability during compiles and I'd much rather have a stable kernel 
that only works on some machines than a kernel that boots on more 
machines but isn't reliable.

It would be nice if we had more comments in the code as to the exact 
order in which things are happening in the startup sequence, or why the 
interrupts should or should not be disabled at certain places, as the 
logic can be quite subtle and confusing at this low level.  I'll see 
what I can do to continue Arno and Daniel's cleanups and add some 
appropriate comments as I figure stuff out.  :-)

-Jake