Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline | | From | Ben Collins <> | | Date | Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:01:08 -0500 |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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