Here are three patches following by mail to move the BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive code from i386-specific locations into more generic locations, which will allow it to be used on x86-64 as well. 01-edd-move-eddh.patch EDD: move edd.h from include/asm-i386 to include/linux Fix reference in setup.c b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 2 b/include/linux/edd.h | 181 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/asm-i386/edd.h | 180 -------------------------------------------- 3 files changed, 182 insertions, 181 deletions 02-edd-move-eddc.patch EDD: move edd.c from arch/i386/kernel to new dir drivers/firmware Fix up makefiles and Kconfigs arch/i386/kernel/edd.c | 837 -------------------------------------------- b/arch/i386/Kconfig | 11 b/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile | 1 b/drivers/Makefile | 1 b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 19 b/drivers/firmware/Makefile | 4 b/drivers/firmware/edd.c | 837 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 7 files changed, 862 insertions, 848 deletions 03-edd-split-asm.patch EDD: split EDD assembly code from setup.S into edd.S This will enable it to be #included into x86-64 too. edd.S | 127 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ setup.S | 125 -------------------------------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 128 insertions, 124 deletions Applies on top of 2.6.5-rc1-mm1. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com