On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 16:01 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > 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.
in fact it needs to be loaded even before the ACPI engine starts executing, otherwise you're hot-replacing code underneath a live system... at which point you can do this same feature in another way :) there already is a feature that builds a dsdt into the kernel image, all a distro would need is a bit of objcopy magic to build the right one into the vmlinuz... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
