Re: DSDT in initrd?

[Christian Zoz <zoz-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, May 05, Markus Gaugusch wrote:
> > > Has anybody thought about putting the dsdt into the initial ramdisk?
> > > This would make changing/updating it much easier.
> > I guess initrd is too late to override it...
> If I would mount it, probably yes. But I rather thought about the way that
> bootsplash uses: Scan the initrd for a magic signature and read it 'raw'.
> The dsdt would not be in the filesystem of the initrd, but just appended
> to the compressed initrd. I think that something that is early enough for
> bootsplash should be early enough for the dsdt as well.

And this would make patching dsdt much easier for the unexperienced
user. Just download a file and call 'mkinitrd'.

If bootsplash is early enough, then lets do that.

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ciao, christian

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