Right/agreed. I didn't mean to imply that OEM extensions were
new, just that their contents are OEM-specific and not part
of the spec.
> > Also, could the array of structs <mp_irqs and mp_ioapics> (in
> > mpparse.c) be made __initdata, so that they could be discarded
> > after init?
>
> Probably, but they're used in lots of places, so it would take some
> research to figure out all the possible combinations ;-) I'll leave that
> possiblity for a seperate patch (the structures were there already
> like this).
Right. :)
> A patch is attached below to fix these issues, plus one other bit
> of idiocy I found - I'd accidentally reduced the number of
> MAX_IRQ_SOURCES (I think I pulled the change forward from
> an older kernel, and dropped someone's fix. Oops).
Looks sane to me.
Thanks,
~Randy
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