Re: Re: DSDT in initrd

[Gunter Ohrner <G.Ohrner-6V9naDJErT6662+jY7v6MhvVK+yQ3ZXh@public.gmane.org>]

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Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2003 09:23 schrieb Nathan Gray:
> > Because I'm scanning raw initrd data? Can anybody give me hints or a
> > better solution? I'm willing to improve it, but I don't think that it is
> > easy to do.
> I continue to think that the proper solution is a separate kernel parameter
> acpi_tables=/boot/tables.??? (with credit to the person who generalized
> this idea from the dsdt to all tables).  I know you're concerned about fs
> drivers not being around, but if the kernel can find the initrd on the disk
> it should be able to find other files somehow.

I cannot. It needs help from the boot loader.

> guess my next question would be, is there a filesystem in the initrd, and
> if so can you implement your patch in a way that respects the filesystem
> abstraction rather than scanning the raw bytes.  I'm not much of a kernel

There is, but at the time the DSDT is needed the filesystem drivers probably 
are not yet initialized so you cannot use them to access the DSDT.

Greetings,

  Gunter

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