From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:05:46 -0700 Message-ID: <4F6CD79A.8020805@zytor.com> References: <1332512984-79664-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56990 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757872Ab2CWUGT (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:06:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1332512984-79664-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net, vojcek@tlen.pl, dsdt@gaugusch.at, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Lin Ming , lenb@kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com On 03/23/2012 07:29 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote: > Details can be found in: > Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt I did not see in this any discussion about how the data format of the initrd/initramfs gets affected. There are some other things too (microcode updates, for example) which also would like to get initramfs data early, and maybe we need to think about how to containerize this properly. -hpa