From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Barr Subject: Re: DSDT loading patch Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:40:25 -0500 Message-ID: <200412060740.25524.barr.156@osu.edu> References: <200412060907.53079.david.goodenough@btconnect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200412060907.53079.david.goodenough-6b45v/Ft3lbby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Cc: David Goodenough List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Monday 06 December 2004 4:07 am, David Goodenough wrote: > I recently bought my eldest son a Samsung P28 laptop, which works just fine > with Linux except of course that it suffers from a badly built DSDT. I > have found instructions as to how to fix it and found that this required me > to add in a patch to the kernel to allow a DSDT image to be appended to the > initrd image. This patch seems to have been around for a long time and > judging by the number of machines listed as needing to have their DSDT > updated there is a need to have this patch in the standard kernel. Is > there a reason why this patch has not been included? > > The most useful page I found that describes this particular patch was > http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml, which says that SuSE now include the > patch anyway, and that Mandrake are considering it. > > David There is a feature to compile-in the DSDT included in ACPI patch 20041105. I forget if it's in kernel 2.6.9 or not. I think the DSDT-in-initrd technique is not recommended anymore. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/