linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd

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Message-ID: <4F6CD79A.8020805@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:05:46 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
CC:	eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net, vojcek@...n.pl, dsdt@...gusch.at,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>, lenb@...nel.org,
	robert.moore@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables via
 initrd

On 03/23/2012 07:29 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> Details can be found in:
> Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt

I did not see in this any discussion about how the data format of the
initrd/initramfs gets affected.  There are some other things too
(microcode updates, for example) which also would like to get initramfs
data early, and maybe we need to think about how to containerize this
properly.

	-hpa
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