From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Goodenough Subject: DSDT loading patch Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:07:53 +0000 Message-ID: <200412060907.53079.david.goodenough@btconnect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: 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 List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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/