From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gunter Ohrner Subject: Re: Re: DSDT in initrd Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 10:07:36 +0200 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <200305211007.45786@mail.CustomCDROM.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 paramet= er > acpi_tables=3D/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 di= sk > 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 probabl= y=20 are not yet initialized so you cannot use them to access the DSDT. Greetings, Gunter =2D --=20 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + PGP-verschl=FCsselte Mails bevorzugt! + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Lady Ramkin's bosom rose and fell like an empire. -- (Terry=20 Pratchett, Guards! Guards!) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ http://www.lspace.org +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+yzPQ0ORHvREo8l8RAneNAJ97y4L7ni+1gMmLIlh+NMrkxHkY7gCeN4oc +SAL4tHxCxs6v+Bqn/7rdE0=3D =3DFHC6 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge