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From: Jake H. <jh...@po...> - 2005-01-28 03:26:48
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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 |