linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline

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Date:	Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:17:45 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@...en.pl>
Cc:	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-utc>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 23:01:20 +0100
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@...en.pl> wrote:

> Acer notebook users here dump DSDT from their own machine, fix it and then 
> load via initrd. 

Under EU law thats two copies without permission and modification without
permission of the rights holder....

> > 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)?

Arjan - can you explain the linking dsdt one in more detail ?
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