From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Mahoney Subject: [patch 0/2] ACPI: generic initramfs table override support #3 Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:55:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20091009195508.694274257@suse.com> Return-path: Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:52738 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761298AbZJIUBc (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:01:32 -0400 Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=89ric=20Piel?= , Jan Beulich , Thomas Renninger , "H. Peter Anvin" , Len Brown This patch set contains two patches: 1) Move populate_rootfs back to start_kernel, so it can be used by acpi_early_init 2) Add the ability to override ACPI tables from the initramfs I'd like some review for the second patch. I expect objections to what is essentially open coding the top of acpi_load_table in a separate function, but Jan Beulich advised me that modifying code under acpica/ was not recommended. Ideally there would be a way to replace an existing table before it is loaded, or at the very least be able to request the table descriptor instead of just the table header. I've tested this patch set successfully at home, but I don't have a particularly exotic setup. Thanks! -Jeff -- Jeff Mahoney SuSE Labs