Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:01:31 +0300 | | From | Pekka Pietikainen <> | | Subject | Re: Buggy DSDTs policy ? |
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:21:09PM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote: > >> Yes, sure. But real non-technical people won't replace their DSDT > >> either. > >Their distro could do it for them :-) A simple approach would be to > >store md5sums of known-bad dsdt's and xdeltas to fixed ones, and the > >fixed one gets placed in /etc where mkinitrd automagically picks it up > >whenever a new kernel is installed. > > I don't think distro can do that, because they are not the owner of > DSDT. That's what I said xdelta, so the only "new" code is patches against the broken vendor code in /proc/acpi/dsdt. But it's messy even that way, I know.
But that's all userspace, the kernel should still make it possible (via initrd or something else ;) )
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