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

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Message-ID: <20120327044643.18911.qmail@stuge.se>
Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:46:43 +0200
From:	Peter Stuge <peter@...ge.se>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>, 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, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables
	via initrd

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> There are a lot of bootloaders, and one of the most commonly used ones
> has a very adversarial relationship with the kernel maintainers.

A couple of less commonly used ones, by or near the coreboot project,
haven't exactly been embraced by kernel maintainers. Dunno if it's
because coreboot doesn't much like ACPI, and thinks that it would
be interesting to explore and innovate firmware on x86.


//Peter
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