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From: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>
To: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>,
	Onur Kucuk <onur@delipenguen.net>,
	Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Buggy DSDTs policy ?
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:01:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041025090131.GA3404@ee.oulu.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F84041ABFE0@pdsmsx403>

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:21:09PM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote:
> >> Yes, sure. But real non-technical people won't replace their DSDT
> >> either.
> >Their distro could do it for them :-) A simple approach would be to
> >store md5sums of known-bad dsdt's and xdeltas to fixed ones, and the 
> >fixed one gets placed in /etc where mkinitrd automagically picks it up
> >whenever a new kernel is installed.
> 
> I don't think distro can do that, because they are not the owner of
> DSDT.
That's what I said xdelta, so the only "new" code is patches against
the broken vendor code in /proc/acpi/dsdt. But it's messy even
that way, I know.

But that's all userspace, the kernel should still make it possible (via
initrd or something else ;) )





  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-25  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-25  6:21 Buggy DSDTs policy ? Yu, Luming
2004-10-25  9:01 ` Pekka Pietikainen [this message]
2004-10-25  9:13   ` Xavier Bestel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-25  5:56 Yu, Luming
2004-10-22 12:23 Olivier Galibert
2004-10-22 14:41 ` Onur Kucuk
2004-10-22 14:55   ` Xavier Bestel
2004-10-22 15:19     ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-10-22 15:35       ` Xavier Bestel
2004-10-22 16:30         ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-10-22 16:44         ` Onur Kucuk

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