Re: DSDT loading patch

Andrew Barr
2004-12-06T12:40:25Z

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