From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>
Cc: Onur Kucuk <onur@delipenguen.net>,
Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Buggy DSDTs policy ?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:35:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098459316.31003.93.camel@gonzales> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041022151943.GA16874@ee.oulu.fi>
Le ven 22/10/2004 à 17:19, Pekka Pietikainen a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:55:35PM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT is included in 2.6.9
> >
> > But fixed DSDTs are a pain to find, and fixing a buggy DSDT is
> > impossible for a non-hacker.
> >
> http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php has quite a few.
.. which aren't all proper fixes (I tried the DSDT for Armada 1700, it's
a partial fix only).
> The problem is getting the fixed dsdt in use without recompiling your
> kernel, since quite a few people, especially non-technical ones, use vendor
> kernels. There's an approach that uses initrd, but this isn't merged
> yet. I'd say it should be, assuming no better solution can be found.
Yes, sure. But real non-technical people won't replace their DSDT
either.
Xav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 12:23 Olivier Galibert
2004-10-22 14:41 ` Onur Kucuk
2004-10-22 14:55 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-10-22 15:19 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-10-22 15:35 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2004-10-22 16:30 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-10-22 16:44 ` Onur Kucuk
2004-10-25 5:56 Yu, Luming
2004-10-25 6:21 Yu, Luming
2004-10-25 9:01 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-10-25 9:13 ` Xavier Bestel
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