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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:49:06 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> To: Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com> Cc: Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Eric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-utc> Subject: Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 16:01 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 20:45 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 14:35 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > 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. > > > > that's a moot point; you need to load firmware from the initramfs ANYWAY > > for things like qlogic and others... > > I don't see how that relates. The DSDT needs to be loaded even before > driver initialization begins. in fact it needs to be loaded even before the ACPI engine starts executing, otherwise you're hot-replacing code underneath a live system... at which point you can do this same feature in another way :) there already is a feature that builds a dsdt into the kernel image, all a distro would need is a bit of objcopy magic to build the right one into the vmlinuz... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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