Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >What's so hard about submitting a 200 line patch to LKML? > > that's what i was wondering about ;D > it's not the first time, that i see nice features not being submitted to lkml. > > anyway - pavel (thanks btw!) just pointed me to some param "mem=exactmap" : > > >I think functionality

Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! What's so hard about submitting a 200 line patch to LKML? that's what i was wondering about ;D it's not the first time, that i see nice features not being submitted to lkml. anyway - pavel (thanks btw!) just pointed me to some param mem=exactmap : I think functionality is there in

Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-06 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems, that BadRAM is not being maintained very actively and the original author doesn`t seem to have the time pushing it into mainline, but i know it's actively being used by more then just a handful of people. Unfortunately there is

Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
telling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ! There's some really nice feature-patch named BadRAM at http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/index.html for years now, being announced around 2000 on this list, voted for inclusion in 2.3.99. BadRAM let's you tell the kernel to skip certain regions of

Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
telling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ! There's some really nice feature-patch named BadRAM at http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/index.html for years now, being announced around 2000 on this list, voted for inclusion in 2.3.99. BadRAM let's you tell the kernel to skip certain regions of

Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-06 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems, that BadRAM is not being maintained very actively and the original author doesn`t seem to have the time pushing it into mainline, but i know it's actively being used by more then just a handful of people. Unfortunately there is no

Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-04 Thread debian developer
The feature is not supported most prolly cos of lack of volunteers pushing it into mainline, or it might be deprecated(is it??). You are right in pointing out tht this could really save some ppl lots of trouble. am ready to help. pls contact for further queries On 3/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-04 Thread debian developer
The feature is not supported most prolly cos of lack of volunteers pushing it into mainline, or it might be deprecated(is it??). You are right in pointing out tht this could really save some ppl lots of trouble. am ready to help. pls contact for further queries On 3/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]