GNU bug report logs - #42686
Update to linux-libre 5.7

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 22:45:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 42686 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#42686] Update to linux-libre 5.7
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 13:24:34 -0400

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On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 12:36:57PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> DMA ("direct memory access") is a method to automatically have devices transfer
> memory blocks to (and/or from) volatile memory without the involvement of the
> CPU.

Thanks for your detailed explanation! I decided not to enable this
feature since it seems less relevant to systems that can run Guix. Of
course, we can enable it if requested.

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