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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	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 19:21:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061202002116.GB7931@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165006694.5257.968.camel@gullible>

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 03:58:14PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
 > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 19:53 +0000, Alan wrote:
 > > > > The whole approach of using filp_open() not the firmware interface
 > > > > is horribly ugly and does not belong mainstream. 
 > > > 
 > > > What about the point that userspace (udev, and such) is not available
 > > > when DSDT loading needs to occur? Init hasn't even started at that
 > > > point.
 > > 
 > > Does that change the fact it is ugly ?
 > 
 > No, but it does beg the question "how else can it be done"?
 > 
 > Distros need a way for users to add a fixed DSDT without recompiling
 > their own kernels.

There already is a way. It's called beating up the braindead bios authors,
and pressuring motherboard vendors to push out updates.

		Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-02  0:21 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
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         ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-12-02 10:25           ` [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline 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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