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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] BUG: spinlock bad magic early during boot
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:48:13 -0400
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> We used to have 
> a different way but it was even uglier: append the DSDT after the 
> initramfs, and then access it _directly_. This implies teaching 
> populate_rootfs() to not panic when seeing DSDTs and loosing the benefit 
> of the compression.

DSDT's are generally 4KB to 64KB, so I don't think compression
for a DSDT override is important.

-Len