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From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 23:01:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612012301.20086.arekm@maven.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061201215551.66b6eb60@localhost.localdomain>

On Friday 01 December 2006 22:55, Alan wrote:
> > > Does that change the fact it is ugly ?
> >
> > No, but it does beg the question "how else can it be done"?
>
> Agreed.

So how else can it be done?

> > Distros need a way for users to add a fixed DSDT without recompiling
> > their own kernels.
>
> Legal rights to do so aside, do they ? 

Acer notebook users here dump DSDT from their own machine, fix it and then 
load via initrd. No legal problems. (... and without that even battery can't 
be monitored on sych notebooks)

> and if they do does it have to be 
> an ugly hack in the mainstream kernel.

Can it be done without hacks somehow (in the way that adding fixed DSDT is 
easy for user)?

> Alan

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-01 18:36 [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline Ben Collins
2006-12-01 18:56 ` Alan
2006-12-01 19:35   ` Ben Collins
2006-12-01 19:45     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 21:01       ` Ben Collins
2006-12-01 21:49         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 22:35           ` Ben Collins
2006-12-02  7:45             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-04 10:58               ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-12-01 19:53     ` Alan
2006-12-01 20:58       ` Ben Collins
2006-12-01 21:55         ` Alan
2006-12-01 22:01           ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [this message]
2006-12-01 22:17             ` Alan
2006-12-02 10:28               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 12:50             ` Acer smart battery (was Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline) Pavel Machek
2006-12-02 17:34               ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-12-02 18:58                 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-02  0:21         ` [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline Dave Jones
2006-12-02 10:25           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 10:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 11:11   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-02 16:15   ` Sergey Vlasov

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