> OK. But that still didn't give me a how-to-get-this-to-mainline graph. I can't answer this, other than the obvious: it'd be good to get acks from Adam and/or Shaohua and Russell. > Bjorn, are these patches considered for-2.6.18 material? (They look like > it). Yes, please. I should have been more clear about that. I'm pretty sure this problem will prevent all distro kernels from booting on HP ia64 boxes with large I/O configs. So I'll be pushing it into distro updates soon. I do wish we had more soak time, because a BIOS that incorrectly reports a COM port interrupt as shareable could come back to bite us. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html