Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: patch to include a custom dsdt]]

Stefan Seyfried
2004-08-11T06:20:18Z

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:41:08PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:

> I think that one major Distro pulled the dsdt-in-initrd patch, and I
> think it was a mistake for them to do so -- they can't support it.

Of course we (SUSE) probably cannot support machines with custom DSDT - but
we neither can support the ones with a broken DSDT that just won't work.
But we can give even less support for self-compiled kernels, so the dog
bites its tail.
The DSDT-initrd-Patch at least gives me the possibility to tell a user
"If you are really desperate, you can try to fix your DSDT and override
it by doing this...".

> That said, it is useful for developers to be able to override the DSDT.
> There are two methods -- re-build kernel or re-build kernel and also
> modify the initrd.

With SUSE it is just "ACPI_DSDT=/boot/my/dsdt/file" in a config file
and "mkinitrd" afterwards.
--
Stefan Seyfried