Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Renninger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd | Date | Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:42:06 +0100 |
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On Friday 23 March 2012 21:05:46 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 03/23/2012 07:29 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > Details can be found in: > > Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt > > I did not see in this any discussion about how the data format of the > initrd/initramfs gets affected. There are some other things too > (microcode updates, for example) Interesting.
> which also would like to get initramfs > data early, and maybe we need to think about how to containerize this > properly. Sounds as if this would get a bigger discussion...
I won't be able to come up with a detailed suggestion for such a general initrd format change (that's what you suggest?). I'd be interested to be put to CC and join the discussion, though. This patch only slightly touches x86 initrd specifics: (with Yinhai additions even 3 lines less): arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 15 ++ arch/x86/mm/init.c | 4 No general initrd code is touched at all, all the rest sits in drivers/acpi/
If there is any initrd change this could easily be adopted. Would be great to see this one pushed into 3.4 before a possibly long taking discussion about bigger initrd layout changes.
Thanks,
Thomas
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