From: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
To: Alan Jenkins <aj504@cs.york.ac.uk>
Cc: "David Härdeman" <david@hardeman.nu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Loading DSDT from initrd, can it be done from grub instead?
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 14:09:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4832BF97.2070405@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12bd24d7-17d4-4df8-abca-42740ec309fe@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
Alan Jenkins wrote:
> David Härdeman wrote:
>> In commit 9a9e0d685553af76cb6ae2af93cca4913e7fcd47 the
>> ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD option was removed.
>>
>> I was wondering if it'd be feasible to hack grub to load a custom DSDT
>> instead (since grub can read filesystems) and then pass a pointer to a
>> memory location containing the DSDT to the kernel?
>
> Um, why? What stops you from reverting the offending commit?
>
> Without further info, I'd assume the feature was removed on policy
> grounds. I.e. it's not nice to be effectively patching the BIOS
> yourself, and vendors have fixed most of their BIOS's / linux is
> slightly more tolerant to broken ones. I don't know whats wrong with
> reading files from the initrd.
It was reverted because the code was not really ready and caused some problems.
>
> Alan
Gabriel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-20 12:10 UTC|newest]
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2008-05-20 11:58 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-05-20 12:09 ` Gabriel C [this message]
2008-05-20 12:20 ` David Härdeman
2008-05-20 12:51 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-05-20 10:10 David Härdeman
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