From: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:01:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165006868.5257.972.camel@gullible> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165002345.3233.104.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 20:45 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 14:35 -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > What about the point that userspace (udev, and such) is not available
> > when DSDT loading needs to occur? Init hasn't even started at that
> > point.
>
> that's a moot point; you need to load firmware from the initramfs ANYWAY
> for things like qlogic and others...
I don't see how that relates. The DSDT needs to be loaded even before
driver initialization begins. Things like qlogic can over come this by
being compiled as modules, and letting initramfs-tools take care of
things.
That's not the case for DSDT loading. I'm not saying this patch is the
epitome of good coding, just that it's a needed feature.
If there's a better way to do it, I'm volunteering to do the grunt work,
but I haven't heard of any alternatives to this solution.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-01 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-01 18:36 Ben Collins
2006-12-01 18:56 ` Alan
2006-12-01 19:35 ` Ben Collins
2006-12-01 19:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 21:01 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2006-12-01 21:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 22:35 ` Ben Collins
2006-12-02 7:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-04 10:58 ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-12-01 19:53 ` Alan
2006-12-01 20:58 ` Ben Collins
2006-12-01 21:55 ` Alan
2006-12-01 22:01 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-12-01 22:17 ` Alan
2006-12-02 10:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 12:50 ` Acer smart battery (was Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline) Pavel Machek
2006-12-02 17:34 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-12-02 18:58 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-02 0:21 ` [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline Dave Jones
2006-12-02 10:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 10:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 11:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-02 16:15 ` Sergey Vlasov
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