DSDT loading patch

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough-6b45v/Ft3lbby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org>]

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


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