From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Cc: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Acer smart battery (was Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline)
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:50:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061202125004.GA4773@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612012301.20086.arekm@maven.pl>
Hi!
> > > > Does that change the fact it is ugly ?
> > >
> > > No, but it does beg the question "how else can it be done"?
> >
> > Agreed.
>
> So how else can it be done?
>
> > > Distros need a way for users to add a fixed DSDT without recompiling
> > > their own kernels.
> >
> > Legal rights to do so aside, do they ?
>
> Acer notebook users here dump DSDT from their own machine, fix it and then
> load via initrd. No legal problems. (... and without that even battery can't
> be monitored on sych notebooks)
Merge smart battery support, instead of hacking DSDT. It is about time
linux started supporting smart batteries, and yes they are documented.
--
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-02 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-01 18:36 [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline Ben Collins
2006-12-01 18:56 ` Alan
2006-12-01 19:35 ` Ben Collins
2006-12-01 19:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 21:01 ` Ben Collins
2006-12-01 21:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 22:35 ` Ben Collins
2006-12-02 7:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-04 10:58 ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-12-01 19:53 ` Alan
2006-12-01 20:58 ` Ben Collins
2006-12-01 21:55 ` Alan
2006-12-01 22:01 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-12-01 22:17 ` Alan
2006-12-02 10:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 12:50 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-12-02 17:34 ` Acer smart battery (was Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline) Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-12-02 18:58 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-02 0:21 ` [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline Dave Jones
2006-12-02 10:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 10:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 11:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-02 16:15 ` Sergey Vlasov
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