From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753189Ab2C0Ex1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:53:27 -0400 Received: from foo.stuge.se ([212.116.89.98]:58310 "HELO foo.stuge.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751251Ab2C0ExZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:53:25 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:53:25 EDT Message-ID: <20120327044643.18911.qmail@stuge.se> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:46:43 +0200 From: Peter Stuge To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Thomas Renninger , eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net, vojcek@tlen.pl, dsdt@gaugusch.at, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Lin Ming , lenb@kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com, Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd Mail-Followup-To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Renninger , eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net, vojcek@tlen.pl, dsdt@gaugusch.at, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Lin Ming , lenb@kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com, Al Viro References: <1332512984-79664-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <201203240402.38749.trenn@suse.de> <4F6D50DD.4050306@zytor.com> <201203260245.43177.trenn@suse.de> <4F6FC57D.3050404@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F6FC57D.3050404@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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