> okay, thanks john for your fast reply.

Sure.

> the reasons you mentioned above are more than enough to convince (at least ;) 
> me to let this disabled. but, why isn't there a little more information in 
> the kernel config files' comment (should work, but is not neccessarily 
> stable)?

I've been meaning to change the comment regarding the awacs driver; 
perhaps a small addition for OFW caching would be Ok, too. I'll ask.

John