linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] BUG: spinlock bad magic early during boot

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Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:48:13 -0400
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	Eric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Markus Gaugusch <dsdt@...gusch.at>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] BUG: spinlock bad magic early during boot

> We used to have 
> a different way but it was even uglier: append the DSDT after the 
> initramfs, and then access it _directly_. This implies teaching 
> populate_rootfs() to not panic when seeing DSDTs and loosing the benefit 
> of the compression.

DSDT's are generally 4KB to 64KB, so I don't think compression
for a DSDT override is important.

-Len
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