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From: David Goodenough <david.goodenough-6b45v/Ft3lbby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org>
To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: DSDT loading patch
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:07:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412060907.53079.david.goodenough@btconnect.com> (raw)

I recently bought my eldest son a Samsung P28 laptop, which works just fine
with Linux except of course that it suffers from a badly built DSDT.  I have
found instructions as to how to fix it and found that this required me to 
add in a patch to the kernel to allow a DSDT image to be appended to the
initrd image.  This patch seems to have been around for a long time and 
judging by the number of machines listed as needing to have their DSDT
updated there is a need to have this patch in the standard kernel.  Is there
a reason why this patch has not been included?

The most useful page I found that describes this particular patch was 
http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml, which says that SuSE now include the
patch anyway, and that Mandrake are considering it.

David


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             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-06  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-06  9:07 David Goodenough [this message]
     [not found] ` <200412060907.53079.david.goodenough-6b45v/Ft3lbby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org>
2004-12-06 12:40   ` DSDT loading patch Andrew Barr
     [not found]     ` <200412060740.25524.barr.156-ZbGKxL/pcrQ@public.gmane.org>
2004-12-06 14:35       ` David Goodenough
     [not found]         ` <200412061435.23333.david.goodenough-6b45v/Ft3lbby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org>
2004-12-06 15:14           ` Andrew Barr

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